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28 June 2010The Cape Town City Council in Brackenfell donated a large Karoo cycad (Encephalartos lehmannii) to the Karoo...
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21 June 2010On Monday 14 June 2010 snow fell on the higher reaches of the mountains surrounding Worcester. The snow was...
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14 June 2010A new species from the iris family found near Worcester, is to be named Moraea vuvuzela by SANBI botanist Dr John...
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09 June 2010This year (2010) the Free State NBG has received a black frosting earlier than usual. A black frost can be described as...
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09 June 2010The newly developed Tree Route in the Pretoria National Botanical Garden was launched on 22 May 2010 on the...
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04 June 2010A lightning storm at about 4:00am on Thursday morning (3 June 2010) started a fire in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve...
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25 May 2010The International Year of Biodiversity was given an extra boost as the South African National Biodiversity Institute's...
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24 May 2010Day 5 (Fri 19 May) The flowers and plant material finally arrived on Friday night and are thankfully in good condition...
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23 May 2010This month the Lewis Foundation announced that it will dedicate R9 million over the next three years to set up the...
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21 May 2010Day 1 (Monday 17 May) & Day 2 (Tuesday 18 May) The team arrived in London on Sunday 16 May 2010, luckily unaffected...
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19 May 2010When it gets to the week before the Chelsea Flower Show in London it's all systems go at Kirstenbosch National...
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17 May 2010Across the world, International Biodiversity Day is celebrated on 22 May. This year's event is especially significant...
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12 May 2010After 34 years of award-winning exhibits at the Royal Horticultural Society's prestigious annual Chelsea Flower Show in...
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12 May 2010Working for Wetlands is keeping up with the resolution to annually reward excellence in project implementation amongst ...
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12 May 2010As part of our experiments and trials here at the Hantam National Botanical Garden we have burned, cut and grazed...
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28 April 2010In one of the continent's largest collaborative conservation projects to date, South Africa has become the first of the...
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21 April 2010We are delighted to announce the launch of our much awaited Virtual Tours of our National Botanical Gardens . Each of...
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01 April 2010SANBI recently celebrated the handover of the first collection of South African Biodiversity Information Facility (...
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22 March 20102010 has produced an interesting twist to the biodiversity of the Lowveld NBG. The recent rains...
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15 March 2010The Biodiversity Expo 2010 was another great success! This conservation community event, led by SANBI, in its third...
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