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…
SEATTLE, August 8, 2014 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce the funding of two new awards that expand upon the outstanding work of two previous grants. JRS awards funding to the Université d'Abomey-Calavi (Benin) and to Tulane University (USA) to continue…
ARCOS and the Africa Mountain Partnership Champions Committee in partnership with the East African Community (EAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are organizing the 1st…
Professor Daniel H. Janzen, founder and Chair of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund's (GDFCF) Board of Directors, and Costa Rica's INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad), have been selected to be co-awardees of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize. Established in 1992,…
ElephantVoices founders Joyce Poole and Petter Granli recently shared the joy and drama of a baby male elephant's birth in A Gift to the Maasai Mara - A baby Elephant is Born on the National Geographic blog A Voice for…
Earth Day 2014 is today - a day to celebrate the beauty of the earth and to take action as human activity relentlessly erodes the biodiversity that supports life. According to the Earth Day Network, one billion people worldwide will…
African biodiversity informaticians convened in Pretoria last week to collaborate on the JRS-funded project aimed at ensuring biodiversity data is available to support evidence-based policy making. The workshop took place at Pretoria National Botanic Garden from 25 to 27 March 2014…
Aaron McNevin has been a member of the JRS Biodiversity Board of Trustees since 2009. He is currently the Director of Aquaculture at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) where he began creating standards for responsible aquaculture in 2004, which in…
The University of Cape Town's Animal Demography Unit (UCT ADU), in partnership with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), launches their book Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland on April 16, 2014. This publication…
JRS is always happy to be on the leading edge, so we are excited to learn that March 19th is a brand new holiday, Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Taxonomist Appreciation Day is the invention of Dr. Terry McGlynn, Associate Professor of Biology, California…
