African Wildlife & Environment Issue 74

CONSERVATION

Photo 1. Dr Bezeng sampling environmental DNA at the port of Durban

Photo 2. Pre-processing of environmental DNA samples at the African Centre for DNA Barcoding (ACDB), University of Johannesburg, South Africa, with Dr Bezeng and Prof. Savolainen. The ACDB laboratory was partly funded by a capacity building grant from the South African National Research Foundation and UK Royal Society to Prof. Van der Bank and Prof. Savolainen.

Photo 3. The final environmental DNA analyses are being completed at the Royal Society Wolfson Laboratory for ecological genomics, headed by Prof. Savolainen (photo A. Thomas)

A stand of Populus canescens , an alien invasive tree, next to the Caledon River, South Africa

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