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…
In 2018, the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute's (TAWIRI’s) JRS-funded project, Assessing Landscape Level Impacts of Climate Change on Montane Forest Pollinators in Tanzania, set out to develop and publish a web portal where climatic, elevational range, and demographic data on…
In 2019, Water Journalists Africa (WJA) received the first JRS grant to support science and conservation journalism. This three-year project works from the journalist side of scientific communications to bridge the gap between scientists and journalists and to promote data-based…
The FBIS landing page includes an overview dashboard providing a summary of biodiversity records for each biotic group, site assessments and number of sites. Source: FBIS. South Africa’s unique freshwater biodiversity is under building pressure from climate change, over-exploitation, and…
The JRS Biodiversity Foundation has pledged $25,000 to support the 22nd Congress of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (French acronym: AETFAT) from March 22-26, 2021, in Livingstone, Zambia. This triennial conference has been…
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and its many partners meet in Brussels on November 13-14, 2019, to conclude the first phase of the Biodiversity Information for Development (BD) Program's first phase and to plan its future. The BID program…
Seattle, Washington -- April 24, 2019 -- The African Biodiversity Challenge began in 2017 when the Ghana, Malawi, Namibia, and Rwandan teams were chosen from over 40 initial applications, spanning 13 countries. Each team worked with South African National Biodiversity…
