Hello

Hello.  My name is Joseph Douglas Mandla White.  I am 23 years old and a keen botanist/ecologist.  This year I am studying Honours in Biological Sciences at UCT.  To further inspire and stimulate my own relationship with science, I will have a blog.  This blog will be aimed at those who have an interest and love for science (in particular botany and ecology), but maybe don’t have the understanding or access to explore it further.  

Each post will attempt at reporting and communicating what is going on in the world of science.  I will read a popular, current, peer-reviewed article from one of the more reputable science journals out there and give you the good bits that I hope you may find interesting and/or stimulating.   I will write a new post once a month for more or less the duration of the year, so there’s plenty of time for some interesting articles to pop-up.  

I will try to focus on conservation issues throughout my posts, either about South Africa or that can apply to South Africa.  I will also include photographs that I have taken on my travels and adventures that are related to each post and some that won’t be at all.  Happy reading, see you in the mountains.

Photograph taken in Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa.