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…
JRS is happy to pass on notes of potential funding opportunities of interest to our partners: The Russell E. Train Fellowships support individuals pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in conservation. Each year, WWF supports committed conservationists from target countries…
The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce the election of three new members to the foundation’s Board of Trustees. “We are delighted to welcome Leonard Krishtalka, Benjamin Rader, and Jon Paul Rodríguez to JRS,” said foundation president Robert Guralnick.…
Today, the JRS Biodiversity Foundation posts our new website which will be publicaly announced in January with announcements of our new Trustees, new grants we've awarded, and the 2014 Request for Proposals. Please bear with us as we build the…
"In 1799 the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and his companions set out from Caracas, Venezuela, to climb the Andes. They struggled up a mountainside enveloped in mist so thick they had to clamber over rocks by hand. When the…
In April of 2013, more than 50,000 digitized records on the vertebrate fauna of Bolivia, the result of nearly 30 years of scientific research by the Natural History Museum Noel Kempff Mercado (MHNNKM) and its collaborators, became available to the…
The framework arose from the Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, sponsored in part by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, which gathered around 100 experts in Copenhagen in July, 2012, to identify critical questions relating to biodiversity and tools needed answer them. Workshop leaders at…
ElephantVoices, a 2012 JRS grantee, takes center stage in the post "Name that Elephant: How to Identify Elephants in the Wild" by Christy Ullrich of National Geographic in A Voice for Elephants on August 16, 2013. Read about Joyce Poole and Petter Granli's Elephant Partners, a project…
