Dec 01, 2021 · Students from a number of German and South African universities contributed to research on ecological restoration of degraded rangelands in southern Namibia and Namaqualand as part of the Biota-Africa project that ran for 10 years funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), (Schmiedel and Jürgens, 2010; Hanke et al., 2015).