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…
JRS grantee Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) recently concluded their second year of their project, Biodiversity Data Collection and Training Conservationists in East and West Usambaras, Tanzania . With the goal to regenerate natural forest corridors connecting the largest and…
Despite the recent drought in Namibia and several issues with uploading records and photos onto the Environmental Information Service (EIS) Indigenous Plant Atlas, JRS grantee Namibian Chamber of Environment received a huge volume of records during their first Near-Endemic Plant…
JRS is proud to highlight the ongoing work of one of its longest-running and successful grant projects — InfoNile, implemented by Water Journalists Africa since 2019. Below we share a report of a recent photo-journalism event in Kampala from InfoNile's Communication…
JRS participated in the Global Bioeconomy Summit (GBS2024) held for the first time outside Europe in Nairobi, Kenya, from 23-24 October 2024. The Summit gathered leaders from around the world to explore building resilient and sustainable food systems, positioning the…
In April and September of this year, Herta Kolberg and her team from the Namibian Chamber of Environment (NCE) traveled over 5,000km to conduct their second and third field surveys. The April study focused on the Kunene Region and September…
JRS grantee ICIPE successfully organized trainings to document pollinator biodiversity this past spring. Diverse sites across the country included Mount Cameroon National Park, the Dja Faunal Reserve, and Benoue National Park in northern Cameroon. Project Lead Dr. Beatrice Nganso and…
JRS Executive Director, Matthew Cassetta, was joined by JRS Trustee Dr. Julius Ecuru as attendees at the 2024 Crop Research and Innovation for Agricultural Transformation, Resilience, and Inclusion Conference in Maputo, Mozambique, organized by the African Crop Science Society. They…
