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On the 20th of January 2017, the President of the Republic of Zambia, His Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, launched the 2016/17 National Tree Planting in Lusaka, after which each District [...]

Dr Jane Olwoch has been appointed as SASSCAL’s Executive Director with effect from 1 February 2017. Dr Olwoch formally succeeds Dr Henry Mwima as well as Dr Yonah Seleti who had been acting in [...]

The end-of-year SASSCAL Newsletter, that covers events and activities for the months of October and November 2016, and also reflects on 2016 as a whole, is available. This newsletter is made [...]

The Ministry of Environment (MINAMB) of Angola, supported by the Range Wide Conservation Program for Cheetah and African Wild Dogs (RWCP), and funded by the WWF in Namibia, organised a workshop [...]

The Master of Science in GIS, Remote Sensing and Earth Observation programme has been developed in the context of SASSCAL Task 303. It is funded by the "German Federal Ministry of Education and [...]

The SASSCAL Director of Science and Technology / Capacity Development, Dr. Jörg Helmschrot, participated in the Southern Africa Regional Climate Services Workshop ‘Towards Exploiting the Full [...]

The Zambia National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), with the support of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) organised the first [...]

The advanced international training in Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in arid areas for the South-South Cooperation in arid areas, part of the Chinese Ecological Forum, was organised by the [...]

On 31 October 2016, the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) launched the Digitisation of Weather Records initiative. The event was held at the Longacres Lodge in Lusaka and the Southern [...]

From the 26th August to the 29th September 2016 the SE Atlantic, off the Western shores of Africa (from 0-20°S) became the focus area of a large scale airborne laboratory. The field campaign [...]