Kenyan JRS grantee Media for Environment, Science, Health & Agriculture (MESHA) provides support to science journalists, with a focus on rural communicators. One of MESHA’s tools to disseminate learning is through their robust online publication Sanyansi magazine. The March 2022…
The Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) is a powerful, visual, data-rich information system for Southern African rivers and wetlands, serving over half a million biodiversity records for South Africa and surrounding regions (https://freshwaterbiodiversity.org/). The project, funded by the JRS Biodiversity…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and their multiple partner institutes wetland and waterbirds project, affectionately called the BIRDIE project, is leveraging large amounts of citizen science waterbird data and making it available via a web platform, with the data…
Since its implementation in 2018, the Master’s Program in Biodiversity Informatics at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin successfully graduated 29 students through to their thesis dissertation defense. The program covers in-depth research in biodiversity informatics of: Togo, Niger, Côte-d’Ivoire,…
The Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (THRESCOAL) is a fast-rising Ghanaian conservation NGO dedicated to biodiversity and environmental protection. THRESCOAL's mission is to undertake demand-driven research, empower local communities, raise awareness, build the capacity of young conservation scientists, and push for…
From 1-4th November 2021, a team of National Museums of Kenya (NMK) scientists and audio-visual technicians gathered to shoot a documentary about the biodiversity, ecology, and economic importance of the Tana River Basin. This activity is part of the JRS…
An exciting partnership with BirdLife South Africa is emerging as the South Africa Biodiversity Data Pipeline for Wetlands and Waterbirds (BIRDIE) technical team learns more about bird red listing – anticipated to be a key indicator for the BIRDIE Project. …
In 2021, the InfoNile program run by Water Journalists Africa (WJA) supported 100 journalists from 10 countries in the Nile Basin. This JRS-funded effort is growing data-based environmental journalism and uncovering critical biodiversity stories. WJA also engaged 84 journalists, editors,…
JRS grantee Makerere University has integrated key information for 71 species in six bee families of Eastern Africa into a public database with high resolution photographs to provide details about different species. This data is critical to support natural pollination…
The Malawi National Red List Working Group, comprised of both scientists and decision-making institutions, convened in Salima, Malawi from 12-15 October to produce the first national Red List assessments from data mobilized in other JRS-funded projects. The South African National…
