OWN Correspondent JOINING an online campaign to highlight the careers of successful black botanists and to promote botany as a field of study and career option, black botanists and plant lovers from all over the world are this week celebrating the second #BlackBotanistWeek.
The initiative, the brainchild of Dr Tanisha Williams from Becknell University in the US, was established in response to the success of the #BlackBirders campaign in 2020.
Sparked by a racist incident in Central Park involving a black birder, the Black Birder Week went online to boost recognition of black people enjoying and studying the natural world.
According to Williams, she enjoys birds and participated in the first Black Birders Week, but she enjoys plants much more.
For her PhD research she worked in the Western Cape…
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Cape Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021-07-28