Roads are causing severe threats to apex predators across the globe
Roads are the most widespread form of ecological health and integrity loss. Currently, roads are causing severe conservation threats to apex predators globally,...
Category: Data and statistics
African Oystercatchers on Robben Island
Hot off the press! A new paper, published in Wader Study and authored by Itxaso Quintana, Rio Button and Prof Les Underhill, describes a single-year study of th...
Elegant Malachite (Chlorolestes elegans)
View the above photo record (by Desire Darling) in OdonataMAP here. Find the Elegant Malachite in the FBIS database (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System)...
Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi)
The photo above (by Riëtte Griesel) can be viewed in OdonataMAP here. Find this species in the FBIS database (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System) here. ...
Blue Basker (Urothemis edwardsii)
View the above photo record (by Christian Fry) in OdonataMAP here. Find the Blue Basker in the FBIS database (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System) here. ...
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Swaziland Superwoman!…BDI interviews conservation scientist Kate Braun
I was employed as Ecologist/Research Officer by the Swaziland National Trust Commission (now Eswatini National Trust Commission), the parastatal organisation re...
Chicks of the Wetlands – White-Winged Flufftails
What you see here is something very few people have ever seen in the wild. I haven’t seen any myself, yet. All I’ve seen is a sad little stuffed specimen in t...
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Biodiversity Superhero… BDI interviews citizen scientist Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami
Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami is a lecturer at the Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management at Osun State University in Osogbo, Nigeria. He is also busy with...
Exploring data: the median and the mean, and everything in between
Here is the assignment for this blog. “Write a report on the progress being made in the Western Cape by the BirdPix section of the Virtual Museum.” ...
Exploring data: The difference between data and an anecdote
If you only have one data point, then you have an “anecdote”. Like the photo below: The information we have is that of a single Chacma...