In Costa Rica, 20 lucky and talented school children have gained new bragging rights at the lunch table - they each have a new species named after them. The children won the honor through a wonderfully creative and engaging drawing…
New species descriptions often come one at a time, giving the impression that scientists have most likely described nearly everything on earth. Each new species is just one of the last stragglers, a species rare enough to have hitherto eluded our notice. Yet recent estimates of global…
Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique boasts a remarkably rich and charismatic community of animals, and a history to match. A PBS series "Gorongosa Park Rebirth of Paradise" premiering in the United States on Tuesday, September 22 (8pm Eastern/7pm Central) documents the ongoing efforts to restore…
Great news this week from the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI), which released the 2015 Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) Report Card. Drawing on assessments of 248 reef sites along 1000 kilometers of the Caribbean coastlines of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and…
North American bats got a major boost last month in the form of an international Letter of Intent, signed by the US, Mexico, and Canada, to improve coordination of efforts to conserve bat populations. Recognizing the growing threats to bats,…
On April 15th, 2015, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and its partners launched the most comprehensive checklist ever documented of the plants that occur in the country. The Catalogue of the Plants and Lichens of Colombia, edited by Rodrigo Bernal, S. Robbert Gradstein and…
Dr. Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices was featured on Voice of America's "Our Wild World," hosted by Eli Weiss. Joyce is one of the world's most foremost authorities on elephants and she has studied the social behavior and communication and cognition of the African elephant…
The New Yorker today features a piece "The Batman Cometh" by writer Tim Sohn about the new BBC documentary "The Batman of Mexico" and its star, JRS grantee, Dr. Rodrigo Medellin. Read about the adventures and misadventures during the filming…
Few animal groups can represent the greatest [insects] and most threatened [freshwater] biodiversity on earth as well as dragonflies and damselflies, perhaps the best-known and most colorful of all aquatic insects. Now, Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra (Naturalis and Stellenbosch University) and colleague…
We're pleased to post this list of recent publications by JRS grantees including research funded by JRS. We'll be updated the publications past and current in 2015 and featuring them on each project page as well as at JRS Publications.…
