🌿🌱🌍 The ENVIRA Autumn Edition has been released!! 🌍🌱🌿 Read: natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/sites/natural-…

Thank you to ~600 new followers that joined us in Jul 2024. We hope that you are getting value from what we post. And, of course, thank you to those that are have been with us for longer. We appreciate your continued support, especially at this time, as we will go public soon.

🌍🐸 A groundbreaking new study, featuring insights from our very own Prof. Ché Weldon, reveals the culprit for the extinction of the rare Kihansi spray toad in Tanzania. 👉 i.mtr.cool/pllkmnsfbv #Conservation #Amphibians #ChytridFungus #BdCAPE #EnvironmentalScience

VACANCY: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Forb Ecology Research Group (FERG) More information and application details: natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/sites/natural-… #Forbs #wildflowers #grassland #savanna #vegetation #ecology #plants #research #environmentalscience #vacancy #jobopportunity

Last week myself, Prof Weldon, Prof Cook, Dr Verster and Mr Els proudly represented the NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management of NWU - North-West University at the 10th World Congress of Herpetology #wch10 , a collection of 1400 delegates from 70 nations together in Kuching Malaysia #conservationoptimism #researchers #WCH10

Cover and Editor's choice August: Schematic representation of the biogeographic history of Sesamiina with respect to the three defined time slices (TSI, TSII and TSIII). nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #Afrotropics #paleoenvironments Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

. Who runs this 𝕏 account and the associated web site? We have always said that we would say who is behind this 𝕏 account, and our web site, once we reached 10,000 followers. In June, due to a post going viral, we sailed past that target which, to be honest, caught us by

In my view this is a very important paper. MA Oviedo-Garcia has been posting about this for months (see buff.ly/3XdVzWi , if you have 𝕏) and it is very good to see a peer reviewed paper that explains her findings. Great work - keep it up. buff.ly/4dqYrEn

The UESM at the 6th Biennial Conference of the Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction ⛈️🌪️🌀 11 papers were presented, and researchers participated in round table discussions, chaired meetings and lead discussions. #DisasterReduction #disasterriskscience

We are proud to announce that our very own Dr Hannes Erasmus received the prestigious 2024 NRF Research Excellence Award 🌟 News@NWU: news.nwu.ac.za/young-research… Hannes Erasmus🇿🇦🇩🇪 Anja Erasmus, PhD 🇿🇦 Victor Wepener #NRF #ResearchExcellence #environmentalscience #WaterResearch

I just published a bunch of cool stuff on globular springtails! Read about it and watch them here: news.ncsu.edu/2024/08/this-t…

Next time in South Africa. #ice2024 #ice2024kyoto #ice2028

We are excited and delighted to announce that we have successfully bid to host the XXVIII International Congress of Entomology in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2028! Many thanks to the efforts of our bid committee and delegation, and supporters and partners to make this happen!

The CBC has a new manuscript in Ecological Modelling! Clarke van Steenderen and Guy Sutton showed how MaxEnt models can vary in their output depending on the combination of climate variables used as predictors. sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S03043… Comic drawn by Clarke.

CORRECTION: On Monday, News24 published a story based on a Food Lover's Market marketing video after people experienced the video as racist. We approached Jan Braai and angled the story around his denial of the racism allegations that stemmed from the video, which were already

NWU researchers have made history by publishing SA’s first space biology article! Their hypergravity study on earthworms explores sustainable solutions for space, spotlighting Africa’s role in global space science. Learn more: brnw.ch/21wOPOg #MyNWU #AcademicExcellence

#ICE2028 will be hosted by the entsocsa and the African Association of Insect Scientists and will be held in Cape Town in June 2028. The logo is a toktokkie beetle, a much-loved African beetle, and inspired by Ndebele patterns and colours.

☀️🌿 ENVIRA Summer Edition 2024 🌸☀️ The latest ENVIRA has just been released! Read the ENVIRA via this link: natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/sites/natural-… See ENVIRA page: natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/unit-environme…

🍁🍂 ENVIRA Autumn Edition 2025🍂🍁 Read the ENVIRA via this link: natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/.../ENVIRA-Aut…... See ENVIRA webpage: natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/unit.../envira NWU - North-West University #UESM #Unitforenvironmenmtalsciencemanagement #Environmentalhealth #Research #ENVIRA #Newsletter

Social media and citizen science platforms can be central in the early detection of invasive/alien species dispersal - like with the spread in Europe of the Egyptian Praying Mantis (Miomantis paykullii) and the European Dwarf Mantis (Ameles spallanzania): doi.org/10.3897/jor.34…