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…
JRS' 2022 Call for Proposals invited submission of concept notes for project funding in sub-Saharan Africa focusing on themes of freshwater biodiversity, pollinator diversity, African 30-by-30 goals, and African Representation in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework process. We are pleased…
The Bee Diversity Informatics Project (hosted at Makerere University College of Natural Sciences) announces the presence of an online interactive identification key to the bees of Uganda/East Africa. Uganda has a large diversity of bee species estimated at 650 species. …
JRS grantee Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) has led teams from Kenya's Embu University and Uganda's Makerere University to kick-off a transboundary project to collect invertebrate specimens from the highest montane ecosystems in Africa, including Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Meru, Mt…
