South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is hosting a conference at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa from May 19-22, 2015. The conference, entitled Africa Rising: Mobilizing Biodiversity Data for Sustainable Development, is being organized in partnership with the…
An blog post by David C. Blackburn of the California Academy of Science, "Why More Biologists Need to Teach in Africa" is featured in American Scientist. He shares reflections on his trip to Cameroon to co-teach a class in the Biodiversity Informatics Training…
Dr. Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices was featured on Voice of America's "Our Wild World," hosted by Eli Weiss. Joyce is one of the world's most foremost authorities on elephants and she has studied the social behavior and communication and cognition of the African elephant…
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global…
The New Yorker today features a piece "The Batman Cometh" by writer Tim Sohn about the new BBC documentary "The Batman of Mexico" and its star, JRS grantee, Dr. Rodrigo Medellin. Read about the adventures and misadventures during the filming…
Few animal groups can represent the greatest [insects] and most threatened [freshwater] biodiversity on earth as well as dragonflies and damselflies, perhaps the best-known and most colorful of all aquatic insects. Now, Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra (Naturalis and Stellenbosch University) and colleague…
We're pleased to post this list of recent publications by JRS grantees including research funded by JRS. We'll be updated the publications past and current in 2015 and featuring them on each project page as well as at JRS Publications.…
CyberTracker founder, Louis Liebenberg writes in today's Guardian in Citizen science: creating an inclusive, global network for conservation: "Imagine communities throughout the world gathering data, from remote villages in the Kalahari, the Congo, Australia and Mongolia, to school children in…
TELA, Honduras, November 4, 2014 -- The Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI) held a collaborative meeting to develop the 2015 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card on October 27-30, 2014 in Tela, Honduras. Over 60 marine conservation leaders from a…
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…
