{"id":2009,"date":"2025-06-13T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2025\/06\/13\/20th-kimberly-biodiversity-research-symposium-kbrs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:40:21","slug":"20th-kimberly-biodiversity-research-symposium-kbrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2025\/06\/13\/20th-kimberly-biodiversity-research-symposium-kbrs\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Kimberley Biodiversity Research Symposium (KBRS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First announcement for KBRS and call for abstracts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year we celebrate the 20th Kimberley Biodiversity Research Symposium (KBRS) that will be held in-person and virtually on Wednesday the 17 September 2025 at Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley. Our Keynote speaker for the day has been confirmed as Dr. Hugo Bezuidenhout, former regional ecologist at the SANPARKS&#8217;s Arid node.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Submission &amp; Registrations Deadlines:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Abstract submissions: <strong>24 July 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Registration deadline is\u00a0<strong>1 August 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more information, please refer to the \u201cFirst Announcement\u201d and the \u201cTerms of Reference\u201d. documents for more information. To register please for the symposium please scan the QR code.<\/p>\n<p>It you would like to assist with sponsorship, please contact us for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:kbrsymposium@gmail.com\">kbrsymposium@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please find the Terms of Reference below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background: url('components\/com_dropfiles\/assets\/images\/file_download.png') no-repeat scroll center center #444444; height: 100px; border-radius: 10px; width: 99%;\" src=\"components\/com_dropfiles\/assets\/images\/t.gif\" data-dropfilesfile=\"65\" data-dropfilesfilecategory=\"153\" data-file=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please find the First Announcement below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background: url('components\/com_dropfiles\/assets\/images\/file_download.png') no-repeat scroll center center #444444; height: 100px; border-radius: 10px; width: 99%;\" src=\"components\/com_dropfiles\/assets\/images\/t.gif\" data-dropfilesfile=\"66\" data-dropfilesfilecategory=\"153\" data-file=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First announcement for KBRS and call for abstracts This year we celebrate the 20th Kimberley Biodiversity Research Symposium (KBRS) that will be held in-person and virtually on Wednesday the 17 September 2025 at Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley. Our Keynote speaker for the day has been confirmed as Dr. Hugo Bezuidenhout, former regional ecologist at<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2025\/06\/13\/20th-kimberly-biodiversity-research-symposium-kbrs\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}