It's a sunny Friday afternoon here in Seattle and I'm reflecting on the past week. A highlight was the JRS announcement of our first policy research grants for three projects to research the policies in sub-Saharan Africa that shape the demand…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 16, 2015 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced funding for three new grants that support biodiversity policy research. These grants will create a better understanding of the policy landscape among African countries that shapes the…
JRS is pleased to welcome our newest Trustee for 2015 - Souleymane Konaté. Souleymane Konaté is a professor in ecology at the University Nangui Abrogoua (Côte d’Ivoire), where he is currently leading a research unit on Ecology and Biodiversity (UREB). Souleymane…
CyberTracker founder, Louis Liebenberg writes in today's Guardian in Citizen science: creating an inclusive, global network for conservation: "Imagine communities throughout the world gathering data, from remote villages in the Kalahari, the Congo, Australia and Mongolia, to school children in…
TELA, Honduras, November 4, 2014 -- The Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI) held a collaborative meeting to develop the 2015 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card on October 27-30, 2014 in Tela, Honduras. Over 60 marine conservation leaders from a…
The ARCOS Biodiversity Management and Information System (ARBMIS) was launched on October 25th as a new platform to facilitate biodiversity information exchange and data sharing in the African Great Lakes region, the Albertine Rift region, and the Africa Mountains region. This…
The Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt of Colombia has published a new book on the Tropical Dry Forests of Colombia, "El Bosque Seco Tropical en Colombia." Tropical dry forests are one of the most endangered, yet least studied…
In the last week, two of our grantees have cancelled workshops due to fears of the current Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone that has claimed over 1,000 lives. One workshop was to be in an unaffected…
SEATTLE, Washington -- August 12, 2014 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced the five grant recipients from its January 2014 call for innovative grant proposals in the field of biodiversity informatics. These grants cover diverse approaches to collecting and creating access to…
This is the question I asked myself last year when I joined JRS. I knew that private U.S. foundations often powerfully serve their missions by advancing policy research and analysis. But what would that mean for JRS? Last Friday, JRS…
