Today we focused on effective science communication and platforms to enable this SA Biodiversity

Wrapping up our training with the value of Biodiversity Informatics and @Gbif for science, policy and decision-making and talking about creating change SA Biodiversity SANBI-GBIF

😀 We ended a fantastic week with a group activity around storytelling. Students discussed and presented their key results including tools and techniques they learnt in the week! Part 1 SA Biodiversity Sol Plaatje Univ. GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif Fatima Parker-allie

And that's a wrap😀 We ended a fantastic week with a group activity around storytelling. Students discussed and presented their key results including tools and techniques they learnt in the week! Part 2 SA Biodiversity Sol Plaatje Univ. GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif Fatima Parker-allie

Exciting evening at the rebrand event of the Sol Plaatje University Global Change Centre supporting science and society

Interesting article highlighting the role of #OpenScience in supporting sustainable development in Africa.

Happy National Marine Week. #protectouroceans

Day 1 of the @SANBIgBIF GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif #BioDATA Advanced Training Workshop in the Kruger National Park! 🌍✨. Sanbi Gbif Deputy Director Dr. Fátima Parker-Allie opened the session with an introduction to GBIF and its impact on global biodiversity informatics. #Sanbigbif #Gbif

Hello from #Harare, #Zimbabwe! 👋 🐝 This week we're supporting the GBIF #Africa Regional Nodes Meeting and the Africa Engagement Meeting for the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) Programme hosted by GBIF Zimbabwe & Bindura University of Science Education! 🔗 spkl.io/6009fpcR

Thanks to our sponsor Tracy Aviary (Tracy Aviary), FI is proud to offer a $2000 Travel Award to help a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field for Summer 2025. Learn More & Apply:

.SAIAB and SA Biodiversity's REFRESH Project participated in the 2024 Great Southern BioBlitz, setting the stage for a future where freshwater ecosystems can thrive despite the growing pressures they face. More here: saiab.ac.za/nrf-saiab-and-…

A very good morning to everyone. The G20 Research and Innovation Working Group Workshop continues this week. SANBI-GBIF hosts today's seminar titled 'Developing Global Collaborations to Support Museums and Natural History Collections' #G20SANBIGBIF

Our CEO, Shonisani Munzhedzi, welcomes delegates from all over the world to this seminar. He says South Africa understands the critical role that natural history collections play as they enable collaboration and innovation. #G20SANBIGBIF

It is the last day of the Research and Innovation Working Group. Today's workshop aims to identify global collaborative opportunities that will inform the development of a Roadmap to enhance efforts in Museums and Natural History Collections. These opportunities - spanning short,

Our DDG Theresa Frantz opening the G20 Research and Innovation Working Group workshop on Global Collaborations on Museums and Natural History Collections #G20SANBIGBIF #GBIF #sanbigbif #sanbi_za

For our first session, entitled 'New Roles for Old Institutions: Transforming the Museums and Natural History Collections Landscape' we have the President of the European Taxonomic Facilities, Edwin Van Huis (🇳🇱), to give us a keynote #G20SANBIGBIF

We're now in our second session, titled 'Developing Initiatives and Building Collaborations at National, Regional and Global Levels with a focus on data mobilisation'. We have a 3 presentations for this session, followed by TRIAD conversations. First up is Dimtris Koureas, from

Discussions around infrastructure and advancing NHCs.

Joe Miller talking about the #gbif Task force on Indigenous data governance at the #G20Sanbigbif workshop as part of the Research and Innovation Working Group. This includes representation from South Africa #Sanbi_za, #Izikomuseums

We are thrilled to share that South Africa has been declared as one of the winners of the 2025 World Future Policy Awards (WFPA). The WFPA represents the foremost global accolade for policy solutions. This award is given to nations that implement effective legislation aimed at