Tiaan Botha

Tiaan Botha is a PhD candidate in Environmental Sciences and a member of the African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Science and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. His research focuses on active and adaptive amphibian conservation and Breviceps taxonomy in South Africa, including evidence-based conservation planning for the Critically Endangered Bilbo’s Rain Frog. His earlier work examined the Endangered Knysna Leaf-Folding Frog, human relationships in frog conservation, and amphibian biodiversity and habitat selection in Nature’s Valley. His current geographic focus spans the eMtonjaneni mistbelt and South Africa’s eastern escarpment from Tzaneen in Limpopo to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape.