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Mapping of Sensitive Savannah Plants in Senegal and Chad

Across Africa's savannahs, rapid population growth, agricultural expansion, and resource degradation are putting increasing pressure on the natural ecosystems that sustain rural livelihoods and economies. The Biodiversity Mapping in Transfrontier Savannahs of Senegal and Chad project designed by grantee SOS…

AWARD Launches BIO-SMART Phase 2 Project

Earlier this month, JRS grantee The Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD) and WWF Mozambique gathered a wide range of stakeholders and major organizations involved in the conservation and management of aquatic biodiversity in the transboundary Incomati River Basin…

Capacity Building in West Africa for Bryophyte Identification

Bryophytes are rarely considered in biodiversity surveys in West Africa but hold an outsized and prominent role in ecosystem functions, contributing to soil development, nutrient biogeochemical cycling, water retention, plant colonization, seed germination, seedling growth, and forest renovation. They also…

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