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Frequently asked questions (FAQs) How were countries pre-selected for invitations to participate? Every African country was eligible to be long-listed for invitation to the project. To generate the long-list, an index was developed to measure the suitability of each country to meet the project objectives using information on the biodiversity informatics experience, institutional capacity, … Read more
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The African Biodiversity Challenge set to launch with four countries News item 21 August 2017 We are excited to announce that teams from four countries will participate in the African Biodiversity Challenge: Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi and Namibia. Congratulations to these project teams! The African Biodiversity Challenge is funded through a grant from the … Read more
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The following instructions are available: Learn how to change determinations via RDE file: brahms_determination_changes_via_rde Learn how to change determinations via the form view: brahms_determination_changes_via_form_view Learn how to extract the determination history: brahms_extracting_dethistory A list of BRAHMS report templates and RDE files can be found below (last updated 2017/07/07): Web files family genus people taxa Reports Collection extract … Read more
Visit pageKeneilwe Hlahane, a GIS intern with the SANBI National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) team, has won the GIS Esri South Africa Young Scholar Award 2017, for her project titled 'Monitoring Eutrophication of...
Images will be used for the publications relating to the National Biodiversity Assessment 2018, but also for other SANBI publications into the future. Send images to SANBI for potential use in...