The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF, has launched surveys for data holders and data users in Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific region countries to improve the application of biodiversity data to policy. This effort will support the GBIF-led Biodiversity Information for…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is hosting a conference at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa from May 19-22, 2015. The conference, entitled Africa Rising: Mobilizing Biodiversity Data for Sustainable Development, is being organized in partnership with the…
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global…
Few animal groups can represent the greatest [insects] and most threatened [freshwater] biodiversity on earth as well as dragonflies and damselflies, perhaps the best-known and most colorful of all aquatic insects. Now, Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra (Naturalis and Stellenbosch University) and colleague…
ARCOS and the Africa Mountain Partnership Champions Committee in partnership with the East African Community (EAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are organizing the 1st…
African biodiversity informaticians convened in Pretoria last week to collaborate on the JRS-funded project aimed at ensuring biodiversity data is available to support evidence-based policy making. The workshop took place at Pretoria National Botanic Garden from 25 to 27 March 2014…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), in partnership with African Participants of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), is holding a workshop in Pretoria, South Africa from March 25th-27th. The purpose of this workshop is to implement an innovative and…
JRS' grantee, the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute announces the fourth course in its Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum series, "Biodiversity Diagnoses" to be held 1-9 September 2014, in Cotonou, Benin. The concept behind this course is to take some next steps in combining…
