In October 2021, InfoNile brought together 16 journalists for a weeklong training in Uganda promoting data-based and science-based journalism about freshwater biodiversity issues in the Nile Basin. This training is part of Water Journalists Africa's JRS-funded project to connect journalists…
JRS is proud to support African Parks with a grant to sustain research and monitoring programs that are essential to effective conservation at two protected areas: Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Greater Zakouma Ecosystem…
JRS is excited to support the first cohort of students to the newly-developed M.S. program of the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST). The students are already getting out to forest research sites with local mentors to develop their…
JRS aims to advance the field of biodiversity informatics to connect knowledge to the people and institutions who make decisions. With a focus on sub-Saharan African countries with key biodiversity assets, we recognize that capacity-building is key to sustaining our…
Over the past two years, JRS has supported Water Journalists Africa (WJA) in their efforts to connect journalists to scientists and grow data-based environmental journalism about freshwater biodiversity issues in the Nile Basin. With JRS funding, WJA is expanding the…
JRS grantee Southern African Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) is mobilizing data for the sustainable management of groundwater dependent ecosystems in the Khakea/Bray Transboundary Aquifer, a critical source of freshwater shared by both Botswana and South Africa. They work with an…
In the past year, JRS awarded a special series of grants to address COVID-19 impacts in African parks. This support is to ensure biodiversity monitoring continues within protected areas that are threatened by revenue loss during the pandemic. JRS support…
In 2019, JRS approved a groundbreaking award to Water Journalists Africa to support environmental journalism. InfoNile.org: A Geojournalism Platform Connecting Journalists and Scientists in the Nile Basin for Data-Based Communication on Biodiversity is in its third year giving scientists biodiversity…
The National Museums of Kenya’s project Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity Data in East Africa has published a field guide to the butterflies of Taita Hills in Kenya. The guide was launched at a community conservation centre in Ngangao…
Turning biodiversity data into useful products for decision-makers is challenging. Over the past decade we have partnered with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) to better understand this pathway from data to decisions, and what it takes to incentivize…
