Every plant, animal, bird, bee, and butterfly plays a role in a thriving ecosystem; even at your local mall. Notice something unusual, beautiful, or concerning?
Help Us Protect Urban Biodiversity
Why your input matters:
- Help us track endangered or invasive species
- Support our efforts to protect pollinators & green spaces
- Get involved in making malls more nature-friendly
Your voice helps us build a healthier environment for all.
Useful Links
Here are some useful links for biodiversity tracking, research, and evidence-based decision-making. These platforms provide reliable data, species information, ecosystem insights, and conservation resources that can support ongoing monitoring, planning, and reporting for any biodiversity or environmental management project.
South African National Biodiversity Institute – Biodiversity Advisor: A comprehensive, free-access national biodiversity portal from SANBI, offering geospatial data, species occurrence records, checklists for plants, animals and fungi, ecosystem-level layers, and literature resources to support conservation planning in South Africa.
PlantZAfrica: SANBI website providing information on popular southern African plants and related topics.
Lepimap: The Lepimap project homepage. All about butterfly conservation
SABAP2 – South African Bird Atlas Project: Website of the second South African Bird Atlas Project, run by the Animal Demography Unit, UCT, in collaboration with SANBI and BirdLife SA.
SANSA – South African National Survey of Arachnida: About spiders, scorpions and other arachnids.
Fauna & Flora International: A global conservation organisation working in over 40 countries to protect species and habitats, deliver nature-based climate action, and partner with local communities and businesses – emphasising tangible impact and financial efficiency.
