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The Botanical Society of South Africa KZN Coastal Branch presents
The Botanical Society of South Africa KZN Coastal Branch presents
rePhotoSA: Repeat photography and environmental change in southern Africa
An illustrated talk by Samantha Venter
Research Assistant and manager of rePhotoSA, Plant Conservation Unit, University of Cape Town
MSc in Ecology, Environment & Conservation from the University of the Witwatersrand
Landscapes across southern Africa are changing due to various factors such as land use change, development and climate change. Historical photographs can be compared to their modern-day repeats to see how a landscape has changed or is changing.
The Plant Conservation Unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has a decades-long research programme on long-term environmental change in southern Africa and is founded on one of the largest historical landscape photograph collections in Africa, which currently consists of over 30,000 images. The aim of rePhotoSA is to build upon this wealth of environmental baseline data contained within mid-20th century historical photographs by involving citizen scientists through an online interactive database platform called rePhotoSA. This talk will focus on rePhotoSA as a long-term monitoring tool on environmental change.
rePhotoSA is the repeat photography project of southern African landscapes and is a joint project between the Plant Conservation Unit and the Animal Demography Unit at UCT.
All welcome! On Monday 4 June 2018at 17h30 for 18h00 at the Durban Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre, John Zikhali Rd (Sydenham Rd). ENTRANCE including teas at the start: R30 for BotSoc members. R50 for non-members Students 20.Proceeds to BotSoc branch projects. No need to book. Enquiries: email: [email protected] / Tel: 031 201 5111/ Cell: 071 869 3693