An exciting partnership with BirdLife South Africa is emerging as the South Africa Biodiversity Data Pipeline for Wetlands and Waterbirds (BIRDIE) technical team learns more about bird red listing – anticipated to be a key indicator for the BIRDIE Project. …
In 2021, the InfoNile program run by Water Journalists Africa (WJA) supported 100 journalists from 10 countries in the Nile Basin. This JRS-funded effort is growing data-based environmental journalism and uncovering critical biodiversity stories. WJA also engaged 84 journalists, editors,…
JRS grantee Makerere University has integrated key information for 71 species in six bee families of Eastern Africa into a public database with high resolution photographs to provide details about different species. This data is critical to support natural pollination…
The Malawi National Red List Working Group, comprised of both scientists and decision-making institutions, convened in Salima, Malawi from 12-15 October to produce the first national Red List assessments from data mobilized in other JRS-funded projects. The South African National…
In October 2021, InfoNile brought together 16 journalists for a weeklong training in Uganda promoting data-based and science-based journalism about freshwater biodiversity issues in the Nile Basin. This training is part of Water Journalists Africa's JRS-funded project to connect journalists…
JRS is proud to support African Parks with a grant to sustain research and monitoring programs that are essential to effective conservation at two protected areas: Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Greater Zakouma Ecosystem…
JRS is excited to support the first cohort of students to the newly-developed M.S. program of the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST). The students are already getting out to forest research sites with local mentors to develop their…
We are excited to share the news of our investment in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's (GBIF's) Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) program, and include GBIF's announcement, BID programme funds 18 new projects in sub-Saharan Africa, below: The GBIF Secretariat…
In 2018, the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute's (TAWIRI’s) JRS-funded project, Assessing Landscape Level Impacts of Climate Change on Montane Forest Pollinators in Tanzania, set out to develop and publish a web portal where climatic, elevational range, and demographic data on…
Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am writing today to announce that sadly after seven and a half years as Executive Director, Dr. Don Doering will leave the J.R.S. Biodiversity Foundation at the end of August 2020. Don departs J.R.S. after…
