The Near-endemic Plants Project’s photo competition for the first year is nearing its DEADLINE  -  31 AUGUST 2024. If you still have photos you want to submit, please do this through the Indigenous Plant Atlas on the EIS (http://the-eis.com/atlas/?q=atlas-of-indigenous-plants).

The past season’s drought seems to have put a damper on what was available to photograph. From 1 September 2023 to 30 June 2024, only 261 indigenous plant records were submitted of which 86 had attached photos; 45 of the records were for Namibian near-endemic species, 27 with photos. So, the competition is not fierce and you stand a good chance to win if you submit records with photos.

Although we will count any records with useable photos for the purposes of this competition, we are particularly interested in getting records and photos of the species for which we have no photos yet. See the list of these 244 species. We know it is difficult to identify these plants in the field – therefore just take photos and submit ANY plant records to the Indigenous Plant Atlas. We will try to identify them and sort out which are near-endemic. The other records will not go to waste – they will increase our knowledge of Namibian plants.