East African High Mountains Invertebrate Project News

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…

Breaking New Ground: Data Collection in Zambia’s Nsumbu National Park

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…

Gaea Seychelles Launches Innovative Assessment of Island Rivers

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…

Field Survey Uncovers New Species Record for Namibia

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…

SOS Sahel Kicks off Biodiversity Monitoring Training in Senegal

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…

Growing Citizen Science and Bee Watching in South Africa

JRS grantee North-West University provided the following update for their grant Building Bee Taxonomic Capacity Among Citizen Scientists in South Africa Bees are delightful little animals. Despite being small and lots of different species many are fairly easy to identify.…

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