We've all heard the one about the tree falling in the forest, but here's your biodiversity koan for the day: If a biodiversity datum is produced, and no one can find it, does it create change? JRS Biodiversity Foundation contracted an independent study…
Great news this week from the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI), which released the 2015 Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) Report Card. Drawing on assessments of 248 reef sites along 1000 kilometers of the Caribbean coastlines of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and…
The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP) has launched a new page on their website to enable everyone around the world to track wolf populations in the Ethiopian highlands. Wolf Mapper, based in the Google product, My Maps, provides interactive, up to date, maps…
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF, has launched surveys for data holders and data users in Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific region countries to improve the application of biodiversity data to policy. This effort will support the GBIF-led Biodiversity Information for…
North American bats got a major boost last month in the form of an international Letter of Intent, signed by the US, Mexico, and Canada, to improve coordination of efforts to conserve bat populations. Recognizing the growing threats to bats,…
On April 15th, 2015, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and its partners launched the most comprehensive checklist ever documented of the plants that occur in the country. The Catalogue of the Plants and Lichens of Colombia, edited by Rodrigo Bernal, S. Robbert Gradstein and…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is hosting a conference at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa from May 19-22, 2015. The conference, entitled Africa Rising: Mobilizing Biodiversity Data for Sustainable Development, is being organized in partnership with the…
An blog post by David C. Blackburn of the California Academy of Science, "Why More Biologists Need to Teach in Africa" is featured in American Scientist. He shares reflections on his trip to Cameroon to co-teach a class in the Biodiversity Informatics Training…
The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is considering a grant to publish a guide to biodiversity data capture software and would like your views on its utility. By guide we mean an online and print resource with profiles of each app, comparative…
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…
