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…
JRS Biodiversity grantees and colleagues, Manuel António E. Malaquias, Lena T. Ohnheiser, Trond R. Oskars, and Endre Willassen, at the University of Bergen (JRS grant page) announced four new-to-science species of gastropod this month discovered during extensive surveys of marine invertebrates along the West African…
SEATTLE, Washington – SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce two new planning grants, totaling $45,000, to support project development of freshwater biodiversity information systems in Zambia and in South Africa. Both projects are part…
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.…
