Kenyan JRS grantee Media for Environment, Science, Health & Agriculture (MESHA) provides support to science journalists, with a focus on rural communicators. One of MESHA’s tools to disseminate learning is through their robust online publication Sanyansi magazine. The March 2022…
One of the greatest challenges for scientists, including citizen scientists, is getting their data into the ‘marketplace’ or into a space where they can be used to inform management, conservation or policy. The successful collaboration between the Biodiversity and Development…
The Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) is a powerful, visual, data-rich information system for Southern African rivers and wetlands, serving over half a million biodiversity records for South Africa and surrounding regions (https://freshwaterbiodiversity.org/). The project, funded by the JRS Biodiversity…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and their multiple partner institutes wetland and waterbirds project, affectionately called the BIRDIE project, is leveraging large amounts of citizen science waterbird data and making it available via a web platform, with the data…
Since its implementation in 2018, the Master’s Program in Biodiversity Informatics at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin successfully graduated 29 students through to their thesis dissertation defense. The program covers in-depth research in biodiversity informatics of: Togo, Niger, Côte-d’Ivoire,…
