Across Africa's savannahs, rapid population growth, agricultural expansion, and resource degradation are putting increasing pressure on the natural ecosystems that sustain rural livelihoods and economies. The Biodiversity Mapping in Transfrontier Savannahs of Senegal and Chad project designed by grantee SOS…
JRS recently began implementation on two new grants, EarthAcre and Wild Earth Allies, to leverage strategic partnerships to expand biodiversity informatics capacity by building on local indigenous biodiversity knowledge. These grants will build on and complement existing community knowledge, creating…
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…
During the first quarter of 2025, the Namibian Nature Foundation organized a two-part citizen science program beginning with an information evening at the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) on March 27, followed by a practical field training session at Farm…
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…
