JRS celebrates the successful completion of Conserve Global's Advancing Community Conservation Management through Integrated Habitat Monitoring in Northern Zambia Game Management Areas project. Over the past 36 months the project generated volumes of technical biodiversity and landscape data as well…
Since 2022 JRS has partnered with the Conservation Action Research Network (CARN) to support young African graduate students and early career professionals through the ASPIRE Grant Program working in the areas of biodiversity, conservation and environmental sustainability. In 2024 JRS…
Dr. Zerihun Girma and his team at Hawassa University developed their JRS funded project: Insect Pollinator Diversity under Different Land Uses in and around Kafa Biosphere Reserve and Bale Mountains National Park in 2023 to generate information on the understudied…
It is time to look back and celebrate the lifecycle of JRS projects in 2025: onboarding an ever-expanding number of grantee partners, monitoring ongoing biodiversity field work in diverse landscapes and seeing a number of projects to successful completion. Below…
JRS is proud to highlight an ambitious communications project completed by of one of its longest-running and successful grant projects — InfoNile, implemented by Water Journalists Africa We hear directly from the grantee to learn more about the impact of…
JRS Grantee the National Herbarium of Benin, located at the University of Abomey-Calavi continues to reach milestones in year two of their Mobilizing data for Identification, Taxonomy, Socioeconomic Importance and Conservation Assessment of Bryophytes in Benin project. Project Director Dr.…
In August and September of this year, Herta Kolberg and her team from the Namibian Chamber of Environment (NCE) traveled to southern areas of Namibia to conduct their fifth field survey. We are pleased to share the continuing first person…
JRS Executive Director Matthew Cassetta and Program Officer Siro Masinde participated in the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the premier international event focused on nature conservation, held every four years. The Congress brought together more than 10,000 delegates, onsite and virtually,…
Earlier in 2025, Samantha Walsh, Segolene Xavier Miller and their team from SOS SAHEL successfully launched the Biodiversity Mapping in Transfrontier Savannahs of Senegal and Chad project in Senegal. Building on the first highlight from SOS SAHEL published in August…
JRS and Tusk Trust have partnered to support the biodiversity research capacity of African NGOs to build on outstanding advocacy and conservation efforts. In 2025-26 JRS is supporting four Tusk partner organizations located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros,…
