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Category: LepiMAP

Archive/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Industrial biodiversity/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Virtual Museum

BioMAPping at Home – Lock down on Biodiversity

Posted on 07/04/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

These are trying times for all of us. It can be hard to stay focused, it can be hard to stay positive, but there are ways we can make the lockdown more bearable...

Archive/Arctiidae/Distributions/Lepidoptera/LepiMAP/Utetheisa

Crimson-speckled Footman (Utetheisa pulchella)

Posted on 22/01/2020 by Les Underhill

Utetheisa pulchella Crimson-speckled footman Utetheisa pulchella is a day-flying moth. Link to the LepiMAP record which contains the above photograph of a Crims...

BDInsight/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – November 2019

Posted on 03/12/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

November has been a busy month! We have exciting news all the way from Liberia to the southern most tip of Africa. Read on to find out more…. Upcoming eve...

BDInsight/Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – October 2019

Posted on 01/11/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

October has been hot hot hot, and so too is our BDI Newsletter. We have lots of exciting news and upcoming events to share with you. Upcoming Events Shoot The D...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Boegoeberg Dam BioBash: Where Kalahari Meets Karoo

Posted on 18/10/2019 by Karis Daniel

The interface of Kalahari and Karoo is a study in contrasts: red sands and blue skies; dry earth and flowing river; bustling weaver colonies and deserted towns....

Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum

The BDI visits Roam Private Game Reserve

Posted on 03/09/2019 by Les Underhill

Five years ago, the Post family bought a 5000 ha property in the Karoo which had been used for hunting, turned it into a biodiversity conservation area, and ren...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP

Swaziland Superwoman!…BDI interviews conservation scientist Kate Braun

Posted on 28/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

I was employed as Ecologist/Research Officer by the Swaziland National Trust Commission (now Eswatini National Trust Commission), the parastatal organisation re...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Biodiversity Superhero… BDI interviews citizen scientist Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami

Posted on 16/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

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...

Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Always on the move… BDI interviews citizen scientist Joan Young

Posted on 13/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

“I have spent nearly 40 years living and working in the bush, loving every minute of every day. When I started with macro photography, I discovered a whol...

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The Comrades Butterfly… BDI interviews citizen scientist Luelle Watts

Posted on 05/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Luelle Watts is an amazing woman and LepiMAPper extraordinaire. She has snapped and mapped 1632 LepiMAP records to date, all while training for South AfricaR...

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