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…
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), in partnership with African Participants of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), is holding a workshop in Pretoria, South Africa from March 25th-27th. The purpose of this workshop is to implement an innovative and…
(Belize City - February 12, 2014) The Healthy Reefs Initiative (HRI) has recently released their 2014 Eco-Audit to help protect the natural, striking beauty of the Mesoamerican Reef. The Mesoamerican Reef extends over 600 miles from the northern tip of the…
JRS Trustee Dr. Richard Bagine has worked for over twenty-eight years to protect biodiversity and wildlife in Kenya and has served on the JRS board since 2008. He is currently a Chief Research Scientist for the National Museums of Kenya and has…
JRS' grantee, the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute announces the fourth course in its Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum series, "Biodiversity Diagnoses" to be held 1-9 September 2014, in Cotonou, Benin. The concept behind this course is to take some next steps in combining…
It's old news but good news: In November 1924, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded a grant for $375,000 over ten years to the fledgling journal, Biological Abstracts. Biological Abstracts was to be the first major American journal in the United States to…
To help conserve one of Earth’s ecological treasures, the New York Botanical Garden today announced a multifaceted program today that aims to dramatically improve the management and sustainable use of the Brazilian Amazon forest, part of the largest expanse of…
Seattle, Washington – January 13, 2014 - The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce the award of eight new grants, providing over $1,000,000 in funding over two years to increase access to biodiversity information. "We are excited about the…
