Last month JRS embarked on a collaborative partnership with Tusk Trust, building on a successful JRS funded 2024 Tusk conservation symposium in Rwanda. Through strategic grants to dynamic implementers, support will provide field partners with essential resources including equipment, training,…
Earlier this month, JRS grantee The Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD) and WWF Mozambique gathered a wide range of stakeholders and major organizations involved in the conservation and management of aquatic biodiversity in the transboundary Incomati River Basin…
Bryophytes are rarely considered in biodiversity surveys in West Africa but hold an outsized and prominent role in ecosystem functions, contributing to soil development, nutrient biogeochemical cycling, water retention, plant colonization, seed germination, seedling growth, and forest renovation. They also…
The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe in partnership with the Dambari Wildlife Trust has embarked on their second project with JRS which seeks to conduct fieldwork in the Somabhula grassland (Debshan and Jabulani) in the Shangani area and to digitize…
Jabes Okumu and his team at JRS grantee East African Wildlife Society (EAWLS) continue to make solid progress towards achieving milestones for their Unlocking Biodiversity Data to Facilitate Designation of Lake Ol Bolossat as a 7th Ramsar Site in Kenya…
JRS Grantee International Crane Foundation continues to build data on the key biodiversity indicators identified in year one of the project despite the low water levels experienced in 2024. The team, now led by Kelvin Steven Floyd, collaborated with the…
JRS grantee Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) recently concluded their second year of their project, Biodiversity Data Collection and Training Conservationists in East and West Usambaras, Tanzania . With the goal to regenerate natural forest corridors connecting the largest and…
In April and September of this year, Herta Kolberg and her team from the Namibian Chamber of Environment (NCE) traveled over 5,000km to conduct their second and third field surveys. The April study focused on the Kunene Region and September…
JRS grantee ICIPE successfully organized trainings to document pollinator biodiversity this past spring. Diverse sites across the country included Mount Cameroon National Park, the Dja Faunal Reserve, and Benoue National Park in northern Cameroon. Project Lead Dr. Beatrice Nganso and…
JRS grantee Conserve Global is turning up surprising results in biodiversity surveys within its project Advancing Community Conservation Management through Integrated Habitat Monitoring in Northern Zambia Game Management Areas. The project is achieving its aims for a better understanding of the…
