South African National Biodiversity Institute

This article is about SANBI: Biodiversity Institute. For SANBI: Bioinformatics Institute, see South African National Bioinformatics Institute.

South African National Biodiversity Institute
Agency overview
Formed1 September 2004; 20 years ago (1 September 2004)
Preceding agency
  • National Botanical Institute
JurisdictionSouth Africa
HeadquartersSANBI Exhibition Centre, Pretoria National Botanical Garden, Gauteng
MottoBiodiversity for life
Annual budgetDecreaseR633 m ZAR (2020/21)[1]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Shonisani Munzhedzi, Chief Executive Officer[2]
Parent departmentDepartment of Environmental Affairs
Websitewww.sanbi.org

The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is an organisation tasked with research and dissemination of information on biodiversity, and legally mandated to contribute to the management of the country's biodiversity resources.[3]

It was established in 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004, under the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (later named Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment).

  1. ^ "SANBI Annual Report (2020/21)" (PDF). SANBI. 9 September 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference SANBI governance was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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