We are enormously proud to announce that on May 2nd, JRS Trustee Professor Baldwyn Torto was elected as a new member of The National Academy of Sciences. This honor is made in recognition of his “distinguished and continuing achievements in…
The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) hosted a morning grant writing session for NMK partners and students interested in improving the quality of future project proposals to make them more informative and persuasive. Dr. Siro Masinde, Principal Research Scientist at…
JRS grantee NatureUganda recently invited over 30 Ugandan stakeholders including government and wildlife authorities, six partner universities, conservationists and members of the press to mark the launch of their ambitious project Training a Cohort of Herpetologists to Increase Data Knowledge…
The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe recently carried out a ten day field research expedition during the local rainy season in the southern part of the country. This new JRS grant supports field work for accurate mapping of herpetofauna diversity…
JRS celebrates the high-level launch of the Rwanda Biodiversity Information System (RBIS) on March 24, 2023. The development of RBIS has been supported by a JRS grant since 2019, and is designed to house available regional wetland biodiversity data on…
JRS is proud to announce support to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in its work with partners from the National Herbarium of Guinea, the Centre Forestière Nzérékoré and Guinée Ecologie to identify unnamed Guinean plant specimens, digitize colonial specimen data from…
What? JRS Biodiversity Foundation is funding a consortium led by Kabale University to protect the biodiversity in papyrus wetlands in Uganda. This project titled Site selection to protect papyrus endemic biodiversity in Uganda will generate and process data on the…
For over 60 years the East Africa Wild Life Society (EAWLS) has promoted conservation and wise use of natural resources in the East African region through evidence-based advocacy. JRS is proud to support EAWLS as it undertakes a project to…
Field research yields valuable biodiversity data, and this can be shared far beyond the original study or institution. Accurate, timely data is key to decision-making for sound land use planning as well as for conservation. This is why platforms such…
Researchers at North-West University will use a new JRS award to help spread awareness of the diversity of bees in South Africa and to their importance as pollinators. This innovative grant will empower a passionate group of citizen scientists, students…
