The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently gathered 36 experts, scientists, students, high-level government officials and representatives from civil society organizations from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Chad, Belgium, and the Central African Republic for a two-day International…
JRS is pleased to support a new grant with National Museums of Kenya : Illuminating Understudied Caves to Highlight Plant Pollination and Seed Dispersal Services by Bats. Cave bats are keystone species that serve as seed dispersal and pollination agents…
The BBC recently interviewed JRS grantee, Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic/ Water-Based Aid, Value, Engagement (LTFHC/WAVE) to highlight the unique research being done by the LTFHC team on this critical African lake ecosystem. Staff member Justin Kongolo Saliboko discussed the…
In June 2023, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Herbier National de Guinee delivered the first of three vegetation survey techniques courses to be taught under a new JRS Biodiversity Foundation grant. Currently, Guinea has few local experts able to undertake…
JRS is proud to start 2024 by announcing support to Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) in its work to prepare Madagascar’s first National Wetland Strategy, to address gaps in the national data and biodiversity information infrastructure for its 21 Ramsar…
JRS grantee Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) presents a year end review of activities from their Invertebrate Surveys in Afromontane Ecosystems project, focused on data collection on pollinators and freshwater invertebrates in some of the highest mountain regions of East…
An exciting collaboration of JRS grantee Frankfurt Zoological Society with the Nsumbu-Tanganyika Conservation Programme (NTCP) is breaking new ground in critical data collection within a unique wetland ecosystem. The Nsumbu National Park is located in a remote area of NE…
JRS grantee, Gaea Seychelles, successfully launched activities within the Developing a Freshwater Biodiversity Information System for Conservation and Management in the Seychelles project on September 19. Events hosted over 70 attendees and included presentations by project Director Dr. Elvina Henriette…
JRS grantee Namibian Chamber of Environment (NCE) kicked off their activities with a field trip to survey several sites in southern Namibia. We are excited to share that during their survey, NCE documented a new species record for Namibia! Cleretum papulosum…
In June, the SOS SAHEL team, accompanied by Mathieu Gueye, an ethnobotanist of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) conducted visits to three Dialacoto villages engaged in biodiversity monitoring training with support from a JRS planning grant. Local authorities and…
