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The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) will be hosting a workshop to evaluate the means and methods of inclusion of the Prince Edward Island’s marine habitats and biodiversity into the 2018 National Biodiversity Assessment. This inclusion presents an opportunity to create an updated spatial understanding of marine biodiversity at the islands, and therefore an […]

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An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos unusually broods two downy chicks on Gough Island; photograph by Michelle Risi, 15 December 2015.  Full story here. Southern Africa, generally well covered by books on particular groups of birds, now has a seabird book to fill a notable gap and join existing books on game birds, water birds […]

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Marion Island’s Ship’s Cove: is this where alien House Mice first got ashore in the early 1800s? Michelle Greve (Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria) and colleagues have published a review of the 48 terrestrial alien species currently present on the Prince Edward Islands, including Marion Island’s House Mice Mus musculus in the […]

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