JRS' grantee, the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute announces the fourth course in its Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum series, "Biodiversity Diagnoses" to be held 1-9 September 2014, in Cotonou, Benin. The concept behind this course is to take some next steps in combining…
To help conserve one of Earth’s ecological treasures, the New York Botanical Garden today announced a multifaceted program today that aims to dramatically improve the management and sustainable use of the Brazilian Amazon forest, part of the largest expanse of…
JRS is happy to pass on notes of potential funding opportunities of interest to our partners: The Russell E. Train Fellowships support individuals pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in conservation. Each year, WWF supports committed conservationists from target countries…
"In 1799 the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and his companions set out from Caracas, Venezuela, to climb the Andes. They struggled up a mountainside enveloped in mist so thick they had to clamber over rocks by hand. When 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…
The framework arose from the Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, sponsored in part by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, which gathered around 100 experts in Copenhagen in July, 2012, to identify critical questions relating to biodiversity and tools needed answer them. Workshop leaders at…
ElephantVoices, a 2012 JRS grantee, takes center stage in the post "Name that Elephant: How to Identify Elephants in the Wild" by Christy Ullrich of National Geographic in A Voice for Elephants on August 16, 2013. Read about Joyce Poole and Petter Granli's Elephant Partners, a project…
Bat calls from Kenya from The Field Museum on Vimeo. JRS is pleased to join with other funders in support of work by by Dr. Bruce Patterson fo the Field Museum and research associate Paul Webala (Moi University, Kenya) who…
