Following up on an article in the The African Technopolitan Magazine in January of this year (previous news post), Dr. Aime Tsinda from the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) in Rwanda (project website) published a review of East African biodiversity informatics policies in the…
There are many variants on the saying that you don't actually want to see how the sausage is made, and this is often applied to law and policy. We hope that seeing how foundation strategy is made is a little…
The rapid growth of Tanzania's Biodiversity Information Management Tool (BIMT) is turning heads. The first database of its kind in the country, the BIMT was created in 2011 by the National Land Use Planning Commission (grant page), and its growth is managed…
The JRS Biodiversity Foundation’s Board of Trustees has approved a policy to exclude securities from its assets issued by companies whose goods, services, or business practices are commonly deemed to negatively impact the earth’s climate or biodiversity, particularly tropical biodiversity.…
A new study of digitally-available plant data from Benin by JRS grantee Jean Ganglo and co-author Sunday Kakpo at Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques (JRS grant page) helps prioritize opportunities to strengthen biodiversity knowledge in the West African country. Ganglo and Kakpo's study evaluated freely-available…
One of the core tenets of coral reef conservation is challenged by a new assessment of long-term observational data from the Mesoamerican Reef. Coral reefs worldwide support high tropical marine biodiversity, but face a barrage of threats, including rising ocean temperatures and acidity, decreases…
Biodiversity informatics tells us what we know about which species of plants and animals live where. But, just as importantly, it also helps identify what we don't know. In a new paper, JRS Grantee, Dr. Alex Asase of the University of Ghana (JRS…
Over the past four years, the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute (JRS grant page), lead by Dr. Town Peterson and Co-Director Dr. Kate Ingenloff, has had the ambitious goal to build a comprehensive package of biodiversity informatics educational materials that would be accessible for…
We are pleased to share the announcement of the publication of an excellent review of east African policies on biodiversity informatics by Dr. Aime Tsinda, Roger Mugisha, Lillian Mutesi, Alfred Bizoza and Pamela Abbott at the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research in…
A year ago, I wrote that JRS was making its first grants to explore the policies that drive the demand for biodiversity data and information and the supply of biodiversity data and information in "Learning by Doing: New Policy Research…
