The time is overdue for all Southern Africans to realise that the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) is a regional treasure of knowledge and expertise. Its work has far-reaching influence on private and public…
Dr Benice Sivparsad is leaving the Institute for Commercial Forestry Research (ICFR) at the end of the year to join the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) School of Agriculture, Earth, and Environmental Sciences. Benice Sivparsad, a…
Prof Mary Scholes and her team at the Sappi Chair in Climate Change and Plantation Sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) are pioneering research and capacity-building initiatives to equip the forestry industry to…
After almost two years of intensive research, the EcoReFibre (Ecological solutions for recovery of secondary materials from post-consumer fibreboards) consortium met in Germany in April to consider interim research results. In May 2022, Dieffenbacher and…
The Forestry South Africa (FSA) online seminar in March provided a platform for a few of the forestry sector’s leading researchers and industry representatives to present an overview of the cross-disciplinary FSA-funded research programmes and…
The days of applying pesticides to kill organisms destroying a newly planted crop, and inadvertently impacting the health of people, animals, soils and waterways are gone. In its place is a bewildering cliff of legislation,…
With total funding of nearly R20 million over five years (2024 – 2028), researchers at the Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and Wood Formation (EucXylo) at Stellenbosch University (SU) are well…
The young wood scientists at the Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Wood Formation (EucXylo) enjoyed presenting their work at the programme’s annual research day in October. Read the full story here –…
Forestry South Africa (FSA’s) Timber Industry Pesticide Working Group (TIPWG) commissioned and funded a PhD student, Noxolo Ndlovu, from Nelson Mandela University (NMU), to investigate the environmental behaviour of pesticides in South Africa and risks…
Scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins to a layer of wood dust, you can create a filter that traps virtually all microplastic particles in water.…
