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…
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…
