New timber competition launched
By HWZ International SA The Wood Student Foundation in cooperation with HWZ International SA and the Hout Bay House Team has come up with a unique project for architects and would-be architects. The Timber Competition is a brand new project for architects and architectural students and was recently launched to give participants the opportunity to […]
One step closer to separating waste at source
Municipalities across South Africa are considering implementing separation of recyclable waste at source. A number of municipalities across South Africa used the first version of a CSIR-developed support tool to assess and compare the costs and benefits of different options for collecting source-separated recyclables, based on each municipality’s unique context. Separation at source refers to the […]
Local antagonism and resource partitioning between two invasive pine plantation pests
Mesfin Wondafrash, Bernard Slippers, Brett P. Hurley, Jeff Garnes Abstract The woodwasp Sirex noctilio Fabricius, native to Eurasia and North Africa, regularly coâ€occurs with a North American origin Pissodes sp. on Pinus trees in South Africa. The nature of this coâ€occurrence and potential impacts on either of the species is unknown. Using structured sampling, we investigated the pattern and degree of […]
