In 2019, Water Journalists Africa (WJA) received the first JRS grant to support science and conservation journalism. This three-year project works from the journalist side of scientific communications to bridge the gap between scientists and journalists and to promote data-based…
The FBIS landing page includes an overview dashboard providing a summary of biodiversity records for each biotic group, site assessments and number of sites. Source: FBIS. South Africa’s unique freshwater biodiversity is under building pressure from climate change, over-exploitation, and…
SEATTLE, Washington – October 5, 2018 – the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) has published one of the most complete and current datasets on Invasive Alien Plants (IAP) in East and Southern Africa. This extraordinary dataset is already…
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…
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…
The ARCOS Biodiversity Management and Information System (ARBMIS) was launched on October 25th as a new platform to facilitate biodiversity information exchange and data sharing in the African Great Lakes region, the Albertine Rift region, and the Africa Mountains region. This…
The Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt of Colombia has published a new book on the Tropical Dry Forests of Colombia, "El Bosque Seco Tropical en Colombia." Tropical dry forests are one of the most endangered, yet least studied…
(Belize City - February 12, 2014) The Healthy Reefs Initiative (HRI) has recently released their 2014 Eco-Audit to help protect the natural, striking beauty of the Mesoamerican Reef. The Mesoamerican Reef extends over 600 miles from the northern tip of the…
In April of 2013, more than 50,000 digitized records on the vertebrate fauna of Bolivia, the result of nearly 30 years of scientific research by the Natural History Museum Noel Kempff Mercado (MHNNKM) and its collaborators, became available to the…
