Ethan Newman

I grew up in Wellington nestled beneath the Drakenstein mountains in the Western Cape of South Africa. It is here where I developed an immense passion for natural history. I am an evolutionary biologist studying the drivers of plant speciation by profession and an amateur natural history photographe…

South Africa is well known for its rich biodiversity and iconic flora that often eke out a sensitive existence commonly as a result of ongoing anthropogenic change. These plants often share highly specialized interactions with pollinators without which, they simply cannot persist. South Africa has s…