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…
Behind one website, TRIANA, is a story of persistence, dedication, and years of massive effort by the National University of Colombia (UNC). TRIANA is the home for the four of the University’s botanical repositories: Flora de Colombia, Dictionary of Common…
The JRS funded project Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity in East Africa, led by Dr. Esther Kioko, is injecting new life into biodiversity thinking by supporting three graduate students studying pollinator biology at the National Museums of Kenya, Makerere University…
The South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) announced that teams from four countries, Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, and Namibia, will compete in the JRS-funded African Biodiversity Challenge. The competition aims to develop strategies for capturing, digitizing and publishing policy-relevant national biodiversity data and strengthen…
Over the past four years, the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute (JRS grant page), lead by Dr. Town Peterson and Co-Director Dr. Kate Ingenloff, has had the ambitious goal to build a comprehensive package of biodiversity informatics educational materials that would be accessible for…
A team of botanists, including JRS grantees from the Missouri Botanical Garden and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, took Analamazoatra/Perinet Reserve by storm during a botanical bio-blitz. Following a few intensive training sessions with the Android version of iNaturalist, including a guest lecture from iNaturalist…
The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP) has launched a new page on their website to enable everyone around the world to track wolf populations in the Ethiopian highlands. Wolf Mapper, based in the Google product, My Maps, provides interactive, up to date, maps…
ElephantVoices founders Joyce Poole and Petter Granli recently shared the joy and drama of a baby male elephant's birth in A Gift to the Maasai Mara - A baby Elephant is Born on the National Geographic blog A Voice for…
To help conserve one of Earth’s ecological treasures, the New York Botanical Garden today announced a multifaceted program today that aims to dramatically improve the management and sustainable use of the Brazilian Amazon forest, part of the largest expanse of…
In April of 2013, more than 50,000 digitized records on the vertebrate fauna of Bolivia, the result of nearly 30 years of scientific research by the Natural History Museum Noel Kempff Mercado (MHNNKM) and its collaborators, became available to the…
