Dr. Nanette van Staden

Dr. Nanette van Staden I am appointed as a research assistant under the Land degradation, Desertification and Restoration research group at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus. The position entails assisting Dr. Arnim Marquart and Prof. Klaus with a biodiversity project conducted in the Kalahari region. More specifically, I assisted with the project’s fieldwork in April […]

Johan Olivier

Johan Olivier A participant in the PRACTICE and IDESSA projects, Mr Olivier provides access to his farms for fieldwork in order to study restoration practices. His farm Jones, is allocated in the semi-dry Savanna of Southern-Africa and was involved in many projects of the North West University.  The study’s was to revile the impact on […]

Dr Christo Marais

Dr Christo Marais Christo Marais grew up on a wine, deciduous fruit and dairy farm near Robertson in the Breede River (Wide River) valley north east of Cape Town in South Africa.  In 1983 he obtained a diploma in forestry from the Saasveld School of Forestry, and in 1986 graduated with forestry, majoring in nature […]