Dr. Pieter Willem Malan is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, South Africa. He has published more than 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interest is terrestrial ecology, more specifically, bush encroachment and alien plant invasion in rangelands. He has supervised several Master's and Ph.D. students to the completion of their studies.
Dr. Moleseng Claude Moshobane is currently a Scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa. He enrolled at the University of Pretoria as a Master's student in Marine Biology, which he completed successfully in 2014, completing his Ph.D. at Sefako Makgato Health Sciences University. In recognition of the outstanding work he did with the remote communities in Limpopo as a science promoter, he was awarded the Royal Commonwealth Society Associate
Fellowship. Most recently, he received the best Science Radio Scriptwriter (First Prize) SAASTA Young Science Communicators in the category of Radio Scripts. He represented SADC at an international
student conference on the environment in China and later in the United States of America for similar reasons in 2012. In early 2013, he was mandated to London, UK, as the Youth Minister of International
Development for the Y8+ Summit, and was a Delegate and Nominee for the Commonwealth Youth Council, a side-event to the Commonwealth Heads of States meeting, Sri Lanka.
Dr. Luambo J. Ramarumo is currently serving as a Researcher in the fields of Practice and Applied Botanical Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga, South Africa. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Ethnobotany at the University of Fort Hare in 2022. His research interests are mostly focused on human–plant use relations, with a specialization in ethnobotany, social–ecological systems, natural resource sustainability, Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous nutraceuticals, phytomedicines, and biological invasion.
