The South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) announced that teams from four countries, Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, and Namibia, will compete in the JRS-funded African Biodiversity Challenge. The competition aims to develop strategies for capturing, digitizing and publishing policy-relevant national biodiversity data and strengthen…
SEATTLE, Washington – May 16, 2017 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced a new $250,000 grant to the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) to motivate the mobilization of biodiversity data in Africa. The award will support the…
SEATTLE, Washington – February 15, 2017– JRS Biodiversity Foundation proudly announces a grant of $252,000 to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that will enhance the access to biodiversity knowledge of Lake Malawi (also known as Lake…
SEATTLE, Washington – February 9, 2017 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation has awarded two grants, totaling $473,200, to increase the accessibility of information on the diversity of wild pollinators in Africa, as part of JRS’ program on Pollinator Biodiversity…
SEATTLE, Washington – February 9, 2017 – JRS Biodiversity Foundation is proud to announce a grant of $215,900 to the University of Cape Town (UCT) to develop an atlas of dragonflies and damselflies of South Africa, as a contribution to…
Biodiversity data is put to many different uses and access to data can make connections among disparate stakeholders in biodiversity's benefits. If you enjoy a good margarita, you have bats to thank. Bats and the agave plants from which tequila…
Bonnie Cockman has spent her career leading the finance and operations of fast-growing, entrepreneurial non-profit organizations whose missions align with her passions. Most recently, Cockman helped launch Mothers Out Front, an organization building a diverse, national movement of mothers to call on…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 10, 2017 – JRS Biodiversity Foundation is grateful for the opportunity to support the efforts of University of Botswana Okavango Research Institute (ORI) to protect one of the planet’s greatest wetlands. The grant of $111,600 to ORI…
Photo: M. W. Mansell Researchers at the University of Pretoria (grant page) working to document South Africa's Neuroptera, a group of insects that includes lacewings and antlions, recently published their discovery of a new species. The antlion, Pamexis hantam, is lichenophilous, which…
SEATTLE, Washington – October 26, 2016 – On the eve of Madagascar’s World Lemurs Festival, the JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce a new grant of $264,000 to a partnership of leading lemurs conservation scientists to create an online…
