We recently announced our sixth and seventh major projects in our freshwater grant portfolio that each create a notable point in our constellation of projects. Our Freshwater Biodiversity & Resources program aims to support freshwater ecosystem assessments and decision-making regarding…
SEATTLE, Washington – September 11, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces three new grant awards, totaling $545,000, to support access to freshwater biodiversity data in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. These investments are a part of the JRS Freshwater Biodiversity…
Private foundations have a unique opportunity to invest in solutions to complex problems and to do so for the long haul. Today, we announced two grants that can each be placed on a long arc of support for biodiversity information…
SEATTLE, Washington – September 05, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces two new grant awards, totaling $517,300, to support the development of curricula to train future biodiversity informaticists. The investments are part of JRS’ Capacity Development program to increase…
JRS is proud to share the news of our four new grants totaling $57,500 to support international conferences relating to biodiversity informatics. Conference support is an important element of JRS’ strategy to foster partnerships and networks for biodiversity informatics capacity…
In November 2017, partners of the JRS Biodiversity Project “PINDIP” held a two-week training course in dipterology (the study of the two-winged or "true flies" for you non-dipterologists). The course provided researchers with a basic training on the identification and ecology…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 24, 2018– The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce a new $45,750 award to the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) to publish one of the most complete and current datasets on Invasive Alien Plants (IAP)…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 24, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is proud to announce a new $324,000 award to the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) to develop an African Pollinator Plant Interaction (APPI) database, a public platform containing pollinator-plant interaction records. Pollinator biodiversity loss is occurring worldwide, predominately due to the…
The JRS funded project Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity in East Africa, led by Dr. Esther Kioko, is injecting new life into biodiversity thinking by supporting three graduate students studying pollinator biology at the National Museums of Kenya, Makerere University…
SEATTLE, Washington – 15 November 2017 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced a new $264,100 grant to develop methods for mapping the distribution of both native and non-native tilapia in East Africa. The project will be led by Bangor University professor Dr. George Turner,…
