North-West University project director Dr. Connal Eardley and his team have been monitoring bees and collecting biodiversity data since 2023 with support from JRS to their project Building Bee Taxonomic Capacity Among Citizen Scientists in South Africa to determine the…
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…
Field research yields valuable biodiversity data, and this can be shared far beyond the original study or institution. Accurate, timely data is key to decision-making for sound land use planning as well as for conservation. This is why platforms such…
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,…
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…
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…
Lake Malawi, also called Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, contains more species of fish than any other lake in the world. These fishes are a source of food for millions, provide livelihoods for thousands, support eco-tourism…
SEATTLE, Washington – October 5, 2018 – the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) has published one of the most complete and current datasets on Invasive Alien Plants (IAP) in East and Southern Africa. This extraordinary dataset is already…
Biodiversity informatics tells us what we know about which species of plants and animals live where. But, just as importantly, it also helps identify what we don't know. In a new paper, JRS Grantee, Dr. Alex Asase of the University of Ghana (JRS…
