NISC News

Ostrich – Best student paper

BirdLife South Africa will be offering the best 2018 student paper published in Ostrich a complementary membership to BirdLife South Africa. This includes 6 issues of African Birdlife magazine.  To qualify, on submission it will need...

COMPETITION: New Cover Image for African Zoology

Do you have a striking image of African fauna in terrestrial, freshwater, or marine environments that you think may be suitable for a cover?   African Zoology will be refreshing the journal’s cover in 2018. NISC therefore encourage...

NISC welcomes a New Editor-in-Chief

“I am excited about the future of the journal and am committed to helping continue the ever-improving trajectory it has established over the past few years under the Editorship of Dr James Bennett,” said Dr...

Trends and themes in African Ornithology

The most recent Pan-African Ornithological Congress (PAOC) held in Dakar, Senegal in 2016, was a showcase of current ornithological research activity in Africa, with 137 talks in 17 symposia describing fieldwork in 36 states of...

Rediscovery of “extinct” frog in Zimbabwe

The Arthroleptis troglodytes, known as the “cave squeaker” because of its preferred habitat, was discovered in 1962, and not observed again for 54 years, despite several attempts to locate it. Robert Hopkins, an associate researcher with...