Fortunate Mafeta Phaka
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fortunate Phaka is a South African environmental scientist, author, environmental television producer and science communicator. He is best known for research focused on herptiles, studying the relationship between biodiversity and people's cultural diversity, and writing South Africa's first comprehensive wildlife guide for frogs to be jointly published in an Indigenous language and English. His academic affiliations for postdoctoral research are with South Africa's North-West University and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, as well as Belgium's Hasselt University. Phaka is also on the board of directors for Youth 4 African Wildlife, a youth-focused wildlife conservation non-profit organisation operating in Southern Africa. Phaka also has a superhero scientist, called The Scribe, based on him and his work.
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- Folk taxonomy and indigenous names for frogs in Zululand, South Africa (2019) (12)
- A Bilingual field guide to the frogs of Zululand (2017) (10)
- Life sciences reading material in vernacular: lessons from developing a bilingual (IsiZulu and English) book on South African frogs (2021) (3)
- Amphibian diversity and community-based ecotourism in Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa (2018) (1)
- Idwi, Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology (2022) (1)
- Library books as environmental management capacity building opportunities exclude most South African languages (2023) (1)
- Environmental science investigations of folk taxonomy and other forms of indigenous knowledge (2020) (0)
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