The Transparency Talk blog of the Foundation Center's initiative "Glass Pockets" featured JRS' grant-making and grant-management approach as described by Don Doering, JRS' Executive Director. The blog, In Pursuit of Better Outcomes Through Transparency-Fueled Adaptability, describes how JRS' mission to…
Dr. Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices was featured on Voice of America's "Our Wild World," hosted by Eli Weiss. Joyce is one of the world's most foremost authorities on elephants and she has studied the social behavior and communication and cognition of the African elephant…
SEATTLE, Washington – February 13, 2015 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announced today three new grants that expand upon prior foundation investments. The Mesoamerican Reef Fund, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and Zoological Society of San Diego have offered effective approaches…
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global…
The New Yorker today features a piece "The Batman Cometh" by writer Tim Sohn about the new BBC documentary "The Batman of Mexico" and its star, JRS grantee, Dr. Rodrigo Medellin. Read about the adventures and misadventures during the filming…
Few animal groups can represent the greatest [insects] and most threatened [freshwater] biodiversity on earth as well as dragonflies and damselflies, perhaps the best-known and most colorful of all aquatic insects. Now, Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra (Naturalis and Stellenbosch University) and colleague…
We're pleased to post this list of recent publications by JRS grantees including research funded by JRS. We'll be updated the publications past and current in 2015 and featuring them on each project page as well as at JRS Publications.…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 30, 2015 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announced today three new grants that offer effective approaches to making biodiversity data more accessible in sub-Saharan Africa. The funding to the African Conservation Centre’s biodiversity portal in Kenya…
JRS was certified last week by the Foundation Center's Glass Pockets initiative to promote transparency of private U.S. foundations in an online world. The certification reflects that the JRS Biodiversity Foundation is meeting (or beating) the highest recognized standard for…
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…
