(par 8.4.2. 3) Scientists break botanical boundaries
Scientists break botanical boundaries http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/science/2015/02/20/scientists-break-botanical-boundaries by Tamar Kahn, 20 February 2015, 06:19 NOKWANDA Makunga stands in her airy greenhouse at Stellenbosch University holding a tiny, green succulent shrouded in lacy leaf skeletons. Usually such skeletons only emerge long after dead leaves have fallen from the plant and their tissues rotted away, but not in the case […]
(par 8.4.2. 3) Lion DNA database urged as threat grows
Lion DNA database urged as threat grows http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/science/2014/10/28/lion-dna-database-urged-as-threat-grows by Tamar Kahn, 28 October 2014, 06:17 Tamar Kahn THE head of SA’s rhino DNA database has called on the government to set up a similar initiative to protect lions, which she says face a growing threat from the rising legal trade in their body parts. The trade […]
(par 8.4.2. 3) Fynbos species back from brink of extinction
Fynbos species back from brink of extinction http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/fynbos-species-back-from-brink-of-extinction-1.1812267 February 2 2015 at 12:38pm By Chelsea Geach Erica Vericillata, commonly known as the Cape Flats Erica, was near extinction with only two plants left in South Africa when Dalton Gibbs, pictured, and Anthony Hopkins started rehabilitating it at the Rondevlei False Bay Nature Reserve. Cape Town […]