Investing in the people and institutions who share biodiversity knowledge for Africa

Dec 8, 2022

JRS Supports 2nd International Conference on Geographical Science for Resilient Communities, Ecosystems & Livelihoods Under Global Environmental Change

Nov 15, 2022

South African National Parks Staffs New Biodiversity Data Management System

Nov 8, 2022

JRS Awards InfoNile’s Cascading Impacts of Data-Driven Journalism

Oct 19, 2022

JRS Partners with the Conservation Action Research Network (CARN) to Build African Capacity

Sep 9, 2022

Critical Fish Biodiversity Data Shared with Lake Tanganyika Researchers

Sep 1, 2022

Researchers Across Africa Meet for Second Annual Freshwater Biodiversity Seminar Series

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Featured Grantees

Frankfurt Zoological Society (2022)

Ecological Monitoring in the Nsumbu-Mweru ecosystem of Zambia

South African National Parks (2022)

Overcoming pandemic threats to South Africa's national parks

World Wildlife Fund (2022)

Improving Conservation Decision-making in Africa with Environmental DNA Technology

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2022)

Invertebrate surveys in Afromontane ecosystems

Media For Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (2021)

Journalists acting for biodiversity

Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (2021)

Biodiversity data collection and training conservationists in East and West Usambaras, Tanzania

Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (2021)

Reinforcing the capacity for conservation science and planning for young West African conservationists

Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (2021)

Critical biodiversity surveys in the transboundary Lake Tanganyika & Ruzizi Basin

Freshwater Research Centre (2020)

Demand-driven, high impact, expansion of the Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) for freshwater decision-making in South Africa

South African National Parks (2020)

Science support, monitoring, and capacity development for biodiversity conservation in South Africa

Wildlife Conservation Society (2020)

Biodiversity monitoring in Boma, Afi and Mbe, Nouabalé-Ndoki, and Tarangire Parks

African Parks (2020)

Research and monitoring for evidence-based management in Garamba (DRC) and Zakouma (Chad) National Parks

Frankfurt Zoological Society - U.S. (2020)

Biodiversity Monitoring in Serengeti, Mahale, and Gonarezhou National Parks

Malawi University of Science and Technology (2020)

Development of a Biodiversity Informatics MSc program at the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2020)

South Africa Biodiversity Data Pipeline for Wetlands and Waterbirds (BIRDIE)

Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana (2020)

ORBIS: Okavango Repository for BIodiverSity Data Planning

Southern Africa Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (2020)

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) and Biodiversity in the Khakea/Bray Transboundary Aquifer

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