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

Jun 1, 2023

What's That Bee? Announcing the First Online Identification Key to the Bees of Uganda and East Africa

May 10, 2023

Research Teams Rediscover Species in Africa's Highest Mountains

May 3, 2023

JRS Trustee Prof. Baldwyn Torto Receives Highest Science Honors

Apr 25, 2023

Writing Successful Proposals for Compelling African Projects

Apr 21, 2023

NatureUganda Launches Ambitious Training and Research on Amphibians and Reptiles

Apr 14, 2023

Biodiversity Field Surveys Commence in Zimbabwe's Limpopo Region

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Featured Grantees

Namibian Chamber of Environment

Better Information for Better Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of Namibian Near-endemic Plants

University of Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar (UNAD) & SOS SAHEL Senegal (2023)

Niokolo-Koba National Park Buffer Zone Biodiversity Survey

Endangered Wildlife Trust (2023)

Developing a 30-by-30 Landscape Planning Tool for South Africa that Balances the Need for Conservation, Agriculture, and Renewable Energy

Hawassa University (2023)

Insect Pollinator Diversity Under Different Land Uses in and around Kafa Biosphere Reserve and Bale Mountains National Park

University of Namibia (2022)

Establishing Capacity for Sustained Production of National Spatial Biodiversity Data Products: Guiding Progress towards the post2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Goals and Targets

Research Unit of Tropical Mycology and Soil-Plant Fungi Interactions, University of Parakou (2022)

Data Mobilization and Long Term Conservation of Wild Fungi (WEF) in Benin

National Herbarium of Benin (2022)

Mobilizing data for Identification, Taxonomy, Socioeconomic Importance and Conservation Assessment of Bryophytes in Benin

University of Florida (2022)

Freshwater Biodiversity Data of Rivers of the Lake Victoria Basin

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022)

Enhancing Data Access to Transform Guinea’s Capacity to Identify and Protect its Threatened Plants

Nature Uganda (2022)

Training a Cohort of Herpetologists to Increase Baseline Data Knowledge in Uganda – to Build Capacity for Herpetology Surveys in Key Ecosystems of East Africa.

Kabale University (2022)

Site Selection to Protect Papyrus Endemic Biodiversity in Uganda

The East African Wildlife Society (2022)

Unlocking Biodiversity Data to Facilitate Designation of Lake Ol Bolossat as a 7th Ramsar Site in Kenya

Dambari Wildlife Trust & Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe (2022)

Zimbabwe Herpetofauna Data: Mobilizing Data for Mapping Biodiversity Distribution, for Climate Change and Conservation Strategies

North-West University (2022)

Building Bee Taxonomic Capacity Among Citizen Scientists in South Africa

World Wildlife Fund (2022)

Improving Conservation Decision-making in Africa with Environmental DNA Technology

Frankfurt Zoological Society (2022)

Ecological Monitoring in the Nsumbu-Mweru ecosystem of Zambia

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2022)

Invertebrate surveys in Afromontane ecosystems

South African National Parks (2022)

Overcoming pandemic threats to South Africa's national parks

Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (2021)

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

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

Journalists acting for biodiversity

Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (2021)

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

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 Biodiversity Institute (2020)

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

Southern Africa Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (2020)

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

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