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SABONET has put in place a regional team of botanical expertise with the
technical capacity to monitor, evaluate, and document the exceptionally
rich botanical heritage of southern Africa. In the remaining months of SABONET’s
lifespan, participating institutions and individuals will be challenged
to produce tangible evidence of the contribution that capacity building
has made towards regional development. In short, we hope to measure our
success according to the number and standard of trained plant diversity
specialists, quality and usefulness of publications produced, eminence and
size of a regional plant database, and the production of a concept document
for a new project. By successfully implementing and completing End-user
Workshops, Threatened
Plants Programmes and Internships,
we will take a huge step towards achieving impact and laying the foundation
for a SABONET II.
These
initiatives were made possible through generous funding provided to the
SABONET Project by the Global Environmental
Facility (GEF) through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
A special thanks to Jonathan Timberlake and Alan Paton for sharing their
vision with project management. Our appreciation to Nyasha Rukazhanga-Noko
and Lorna Davis for respectively applying their administration and financial
management skills superbly to implement these initiatives successfully.
We also wish to thank all the SABONET National Coordinators for their participation
to make the new initiatives such a success.
—by
Stefan Siebert
SABONET News 8.1: 26
ARCHER, C. 2002. News from South Africa: Report back
from Cape Town internship. SABONET News 7: 68.
BIONET-INTERNATIONAL. 2002. Third Global Taxonomy Workshop
agrees partnership approach for Global Taxonomy Initiative for CBD. BioNET-International
News 11: 1-6.
BRAMWELL, D., RAVEN, P. & SYNGE, H. 2002. Implementing
the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Plant Talk 30: 32-36.
CAROLUS, B. 2002. Threatened Plants Programmes: Satyriums.
SABONET News 7: 132-133.
GOLDING, J.S. (ed.). 2002. Southern African Plant Red
Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No.
14. SABONET, Pretoria.
HURTER, J. 2002. Threatened Plants Programme: Dioscorea.
SABONET News 7: 222-223.
KOBISI, K. & PHILLIPSON, P. 2002. News from Lesotho:
Poaceae checklist report. SABONET News 7: 221.
MAHLELEBE, T. 2002. Threatened Plants Programmes: Berg
Bamboo. SABONET News 7: 132.
MANNHEIMER, C. 2002. News from Namibia. SABONET News
7: 149-150.
MORIN, N.R., WHETSTONE, R.D., WILKEN, D. & TOMLINSON,
K.L. 1988. Floristics for the 21st Century. Alexandria,
Virginia.
NKOLOMA, L. 2002. Curator from Malawi visits Natal National Botanical
Garden. NBI News (December): 2.
PARKER, F. 2002. News from South Africa: SABONET internship
at Natal Herbarium. SABONET News 7: 246.
ROSE, C.L. 1999. Conservation and collections care resources.
In: D.A. Metsger & S.C. Byers (eds), Managing the modern herbarium:
An interdisciplinary approach, pp. 36-58. Elton-Wolf Publishing, Canada.
SIEBERT, S.J., MÖSSMER, M., RUKAZHANGA-NOKO, N. &
HAASBROEK, C.
2001. Has SABONET developed the regional botanical expertise it promised?
SABONET News 6: 74-83.
STEENKAMP, Y. 2002. National workshop for stakeholders
and end-users of taxonomic information and herbaria. SABONET News 7:
31.
STEENKAMP, Y. & SMITH, G.F. 2002. Addressing the
needs of the users of botanical information. Southern African Botanical
Diversity Network Report No. 15. SABONET, Pretoria.
TARR, B. 2002. Threatened Plants Programmes: Hilton Daisy.
SABONET News 7: 131-132.
TIMBERLAKE, J. & PATON, A. 2001. SABONET Mid-term
Review. SABONET News 6: 5-13.
WILLIS, C.K. & TURNER, S. (eds). 2001. Action Plan
for Southern African Botanical Gardens. Southern African Botanical Diversity
Network Report No. 12. SABONET, Pretoria.
