Rynhardt Le Roux

🦁🌿 Have you visited a national park in South Africa? 
I’d love your help! 🙏 I’m running a short survey (15–30 mins) on animal–human interactions & human health. Scan the QR code or click the link forms.gle/nv2tR2TjNhjNmH… Your input help a lot 🇿🇦

🌍 Professional Training Year Opportunity – Conservation Genetics ConGenAfrica (IUCN SSC) is offering a 2026–2027 Professional Training Year placement at Cardiff University. 📅 Apply by 31 March 2026
📩 russoim@cardiff.ac.uk
🔗 congenafrica.com #Conservation #Wildlife

New #genetics paper, led by brilliant PhD candidate @LeRynhardt: "Family associations in a breeding colony of Critically Endangered Hooded #Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in the Lowveld of South Africa" 🇿🇦 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… @lab_munro

Exciting news! A chapter of my MSc work is out! 🎉 It highlights the importance of conserving range edge species, especially the critically endangered #HoodedVultures. Let's protect these incredible birds! 🦅❤️ Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s41598… #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation

New study, brilliantly led by Dr Clément Daboné: "Hooded Vultures are at risk of extinction in Benin due to poaching for belief‐based use and decreasing food availability" 🇧🇯 📖 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1… @ClementDabone 📸© africafreak.com

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New study by Asso et al. on "Cultural #attitudes and human pressure towards #vultures around the Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)" 🇨🇮 📖 doi.org/10.1186/s13002…

Check out this PhD opportunity on #smallmammals in South Africa investigating patterns and processes underlying genetic and adaptive variation. #landscapegenomics #wildlifedisease #diseaseecology #geneflow #ddRAD Find out more here 👇 findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

🚨More otter genomics? 🦦🧬Yes please!🚨 Using newly generated, SRA and GenBank data, we characterised 5 mitochondrial lineages in Eurasian otters, which diverged at least 80 thousand years ago! doi.org/10.1080/197683…

Our next speaker is Rynhardt Le Roux, who will be discussing the high conservation importance of hooded vultures 🦅 #WEEN23

This weekend I had the opportunity to present my Masters work to a group of wonderful students at the annual @WEEN_Wales conference. This is a fully student led conference for students from Welsh University. Thanks to the @NRF_News for funding my Hooded Vulture research.

Incredible overview of sealion outbreaks due to HPAI in South America. More than 24,000 died in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay bw Jan- Sept 2023. Route of infection likely eating infected birds. 👉papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great paper discussing arboviruses. While humans are of course important, more work needs to be done in animal reservoirs to understand epidemiology and infection risks. 👉science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

Today is the start of SANBI's National Induction Programme for Groen Sebenza Phase II graduates, held at Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre, Johannesburg. The 3-day induction is held for those in the Gauteng, North West & Northern Cape Provinces. We've had the warm welcome and introduction session from Groen Sebenza Programme Manager, Mr. Pitso Mojapelo, and Programme Director, Ms. Vivian Malema. Ms. Jennifer Zungu, Acting Chief Director: BIPA has also taken us through what it takes to become a biodiversity professional/practitioner #GroenSebenza2023

#SCAR2022 🇿🇦South Africans presenting their research at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 2022 Conference. 🕓16h04 - Join Daniela Monsanto, PhD student supervised by Prof Bettine van Vuuren (University of Johannesburg). See title below. #Genetics #MarionIsland

#Biomes have been described based on dominant forms of plant life and prevailing climatic factors. Biomes have plants and/or animals living together with some degree of permanence, and one can observe large-size patterns in global plant cover

Another #4IR omics paper from our group @peterteskebe @Devinmain @MonsantoDaniela @Shilps07 @wildlifeomics @ScienceUJ @ssinha_ieee @ujlibscience Transcriptomic Diversity in the Livers of South African Sardines mdpi.com/1021260 via @MDPIOpenAccess