JRS Biodiversity Foundation has been instrumental in advancing critical biodiversity research, conservation, and capacity-building efforts across sub-Saharan Africa. Each spring JRS Trustees gather in Africa to engage with grantees and local partners. On May 14, 2025 the Trustees met in…
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 the University of Florida started the second year of their Freshwater Biodiversity Data of Rivers of the Lake Victoria Basin project by organizing a successful DNA Barcoding workshop at the University of Eldoret from January 28-31. Workshop facilitators…
Prof Tonjock Rosemary Kinge, Associate Professor of Mycology and Phytopathology and the Head of Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Science in the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, invited over 70 students and early career scientists for a 2-day training &…
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…
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…
We welcome in the new year with a report from JRS grantee Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT). The WWT project Madagascar Wetlands Knowledge Database aims to establish a national data and biodiversity information infrastructure for managers and stakeholders of the…
It has been another amazingly busy and successful year for JRS! During 2024 I was privileged to engage with our outstanding grantees and personally monitor fieldwork progress through 21 site visits and participation in 7 grantee workshops across Africa. Here…
