NISC News

Advances in Shark Research

Southern Africa, being a hotspot for shark and ray biodiversity, hosted the Sharks International 2014 conference in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in June 2014. The conference precipitated a special issue of the African Journal of Marine...

Southern African Pasture Science in the 21st Century

With the estimation of the world’s population reaching nine billion people by 2015 challenges for agriculture have come to the fore with more food needing to be produced from smaller areas in ways that promote...

Special issue of Ostrich in memory of Philip Hockey

Following the sad and untimely passing of Phil Hockey in January 2013, BirdLife South Africa suggested that a special issue of Ostrich be published in memory of Philip Hockey as a leading and influential African ornithologist.  Doctor Rob...

Special Issue: Sustaining the Future of Acacia Plantation Forestry

The commercial importance of acacia wood has increased dramatically over the past three decades, particularly in South-East Asia. Extensive areas of new exotic plantations have been established on a ‘learn as you go basis’ and...

African Zoology Celebrates Milestones

African Zoology hosts a dual celebration as the journal enters its 50th and has seen the move of the journal to NISC (Pty) Ltd, in partnership with Taylor & Francis.  In celebration of the journal’s various...