Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral researcher to undertake research on the drivers of woody encroachment and the impacts on ecological functioning and ecosystem services, through combining broad-scale remotely sensed products, environmental GIS, field, and citizen science bird atlas datasets. The successful applicant will be registered at the University of the Witwatersrand and assume research within the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Science (APES) in collaboration with researchers from the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University of Stellenbosch (and others).

Dr Megan Murgatroyd and A/Prof.Arjun Amar together with colleagues from the UK this week published a paper in the journal Nature Communications which has been making considerable media waves.

BirdLife South Africa is looking for a well-qualified, experienced, dynamic, hard-working, and forward thinking Conservation Manager to head the organisation’s Conservation Division and to oversee the organisation’s conservation programmes and staff.

Closing date: January 25, 2019.  We invite applications for opportunities to study either a MSc or a PhD on "Small Procellariiformes as indicators of ecosystem changes and plastic pollution" 

The world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail, is endemic to Inaccessible island, situated in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. Using "next generation sequencing" techniques, a research team has finally solved the mystery of whether the ancestor of the rail had come from Africa or from South America.