Professor Guy Midgley, interim director of the School for Climate Studies and professor in global change biology in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University, recently received the Green Economy Award. Established in 2015, The Green Economy Award…
Reporters from 10 Nile Basin countries met in Uganda this past July for a week-long workshop organized by the InfoNile run by JRS funded Water Journalists Africa (WJA). The objective of the workshop, Reporting on Rivers and Biodiversity in the…
Introductory Slide from the Virtual Conservation Training Program On the 17th of June, 35 young, passionate conservationists from 7 West and Central African countries gathered online to kick off a 2-year conservation and species conservation planning training program organized by…
The African Conference of Science Journalists met for their fifth annual gathering of communications experts, scientists and journalists on May 24-27. The virtual conference organized by JRS grantees MESHA (Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture) in partnership with InfoNile…
With JRS support The Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Member States, Project Phase 2, successfully launched on April 21, 2022. The key components of this exciting new phase of the South African Development Community, Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) project are: Capacity…
One of the greatest challenges for scientists, including citizen scientists, is getting their data into the ‘marketplace’ or into a space where they can be used to inform management, conservation or policy. The successful collaboration between the Biodiversity and Development…
The Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) is a powerful, visual, data-rich information system for Southern African rivers and wetlands, serving over half a million biodiversity records for South Africa and surrounding regions (https://freshwaterbiodiversity.org/). The project, funded by the JRS Biodiversity…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and their multiple partner institutes wetland and waterbirds project, affectionately called the BIRDIE project, is leveraging large amounts of citizen science waterbird data and making it available via a web platform, with the data…
