JRS Grantee the National Herbarium of Benin, located at the University of Abomey-Calavi successfully kicked off their project Mobilizing data for Identification, Taxonomy, Socioeconomic Importance and Conservation Assessment of Bryophytes in Benin at the Polytechnique School in June 2023. Project…
JRS grantee, Gaea Seychelles, successfully launched activities within the Developing a Freshwater Biodiversity Information System for Conservation and Management in the Seychelles project on September 19. Events hosted over 70 attendees and included presentations by project Director Dr. Elvina Henriette…
JRS grantee Namibian Chamber of Environment (NCE) kicked off their activities with a field trip to survey several sites in southern Namibia. We are excited to share that during their survey, NCE documented a new species record for Namibia! Cleretum papulosum…
In June, the SOS SAHEL team, accompanied by Mathieu Gueye, an ethnobotanist of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) conducted visits to three Dialacoto villages engaged in biodiversity monitoring training with support from a JRS planning grant. Local authorities and…
We are delighted to shared the news that JRS grantee Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD) was recently awarded the 2023 RISK award for their project entitled A Holistic Early Warning System for Climate-induced Water Insecurity in the Transboundary…
JRS grantee North-West University provided the following update for their grant Building Bee Taxonomic Capacity Among Citizen Scientists in South Africa Bees are delightful little animals. Despite being small and lots of different species many are fairly easy to identify.…
JRS grantee Kabale University has made a strong start with the Site Selection to Protect Papyrus Endemic Biodiversity in Uganda (SEBU) project. Project director, Associate Professor Sarah Nachuha, and her team of 7 students from Kabale University and the University…
JRS is proud to share that the National Science and Technology Forum honored the Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) team, Freshwater Research Centre and Kartoza with the Data for Research Award at the 2023 NSTF-South 32 Awards on 13 July.…
The Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) recently concluded the first year of its JRS-funded project, Biodiversity Data Collection and Training Conservationists in East and West Usambaras, Tanzania. With the goal to regenerate forest gaps between the largest and closest forest…
We are excited to follow along with The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe as it continues its biodiversity field surveys in Zimbabwe's Limpopo region. Shiela Broadley and her team commenced their grant field research in February 2023 and we are…
