The cover of the current issue of the South African Journal of Science [Volume 117, number 1/2 (2021)], reflects the content.
The cover is described as follow:
As we enter the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2031) with the goal “to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean”, several articles in this issue report on the need for or efforts towards monitoring and conservation of terrestrial and marine ecosystems in South Africa (image: ©Nastco).
Examples of the articles in this issue:
* What the science of child and adolescent development contributes to understanding the impacts of COVID-19 (by Mark Tomlinson, Linda Richter & Wiedaad Slemming)
* Artificial intelligence enhanced molecular databases can enable improved user-friendly bioinformatics and pave the way for novel applications (by Chenjerayi Kashangura)
* Snapshot Safari: A large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa’s remarkable biodiversity (by Lain E. Pardo, Sara P. Bombaci, Sarah Huebner, Michael J. Somers, Herve Fritz, Colleen Downs, Abby Guthmann, Robyn S. Hetem, Mark Keith, Aliza le Roux, Nokubonga Mgqatsa, Craig Packer, Meredith S. Palmer, Daniel M. Parker, Mike Peel, Rob Slotow, W. Maartin Strauss, Lourens Swanepoel, Craig Tambling, Nairobi Tsie, Mika Vermeulen, Marco Willi, David S. Jachowski & Jan A. Venter)