NOMINATE: Call for nominations for the 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award (€5000 i.e. R90 000). Deadline: 19 June 2023. For more information click on the link below... Fatima Parker-allie GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif

FREE ENTRY: Have you tasted Mopani worms? Fever tea? Held a hissing cockroach? Check out the 2023 #yebogogga exhibition...

Chief scientist #JobOpportunity at South Africa's world-renowned centre for the study of African aquatic biodiversity... Closing date: 1 June

New paper, new species: FBIP REFRESH project. Check out the new paper which resolves taxonomic uncertainties, uncovers new species and supports a Gondwanan link...

SYMPOSIUM: Inviting all experts, researchers, students, managers and policymakers currently working on biological invasions in South Africa... National Research Foundation of South Africa SA Biodiversity C•I•B

This week we celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity! Since its inception the FBIP has introduced ~100 new species to science and society...why is this important? Read more here: shorturl.at/uBEGV SA Biodiversity

REFRESH is a large project with more than 40 co-investigators and collaborators, that will run from 2022 to 2024 as part of the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP). Read more here: shorturl.at/ghuB6

UPDATE: More than 42 100 species are threatened with extinction...

FBIP REFRESH Mollusc team getting things done! 🐌

Get acquainted with the Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa Indigenous Plant DNA Biobank!

SNEAK PEEK: SeaMap team hard at work! Read more about the exciting FBIP SeaMap Project here: shorturl.at/fhAX1

#NewSpecies from South Africa!🦀Named after the Winterberg-Amathole mountain range complex, located on the Great Escarpment in the Eastern Cape.

Isn't she gorgeous? Follow SeaMap for all the underwater action!🎥

The REFRESH project continues to reveal the amazing world of fish parasites... 🐟🔬

📣 Let’s talk INVASIONS! Only 2 days left to register for the National Symposium on Biological Invasions 2023, Houw Hoek Hotel, 4 – 6 July 2023! 📣 Registrations close on 2 June 2023 Register at: bioinvasionsymposium.co.za

WORKSHOP: Writing for a scholarly journal 🖊️📚 A great opportunity to develop essential skills...

The joys of marine science, right?🤷‍♂️ Highlights loading⌛️ #FBIPSeaMap

MSc and PhD Project Opportunities at NRF-SAIAB

Today we celebrate World Ocean Day. This year's theme is 'Planet Ocean: Tides are Changing'. The SeaMap project is at the fulcrum of marine taxonomic knowledge generation for SA. Read more on the plight of marine taxonomists... #WorldOceanDay

FBIP #Refresh team giving Our precious snails love💚 Be like a snail and take it easy! The FBIP wishes all a wonderful day.