JRS grantees working on bioinformatics in Africa met via Zoom on August 3 for the first of seven seminars coordinated by the Freshwater Research Centre (FRC). This bi-weekly seminar series is in its second year after a successful run of…
Training the next generation of African scientists lives in the heart of the JRS Foundation mission and JRS grantee Oxford University honors that mission with the Young Scientists Scholarship Program by connecting African researchers with biodiversity information training programs. JRS is…
Professor Guy Midgley, interim director of the School for Climate Studies and professor in global change biology in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University, recently received the Green Economy Award. Established in 2015, The Green Economy Award…
Reporters from 10 Nile Basin countries met in Uganda this past July for a week-long workshop organized by the InfoNile run by JRS funded Water Journalists Africa (WJA). The objective of the workshop, Reporting on Rivers and Biodiversity in the…
The 2022 Call for Proposal Concepts is now CLOSED. JRS has launched its 2022 Call for Proposal Concepts! We are currently inviting the submission of concept notes for project funding from sub-Saharan Africa to enhance capacity for mobilization, use and…
Introductory Slide from the Virtual Conservation Training Program On the 17th of June, 35 young, passionate conservationists from 7 West and Central African countries gathered online to kick off a 2-year conservation and species conservation planning training program organized by…
The African Conference of Science Journalists met for their fifth annual gathering of communications experts, scientists and journalists on May 24-27. The virtual conference organized by JRS grantees MESHA (Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture) in partnership with InfoNile…
With JRS support The Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Member States, Project Phase 2, successfully launched on April 21, 2022. The key components of this exciting new phase of the South African Development Community, Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) project are: Capacity…
JRS grantee NaFIRRI mobilized data sets from national sources to create biodiversity databases of fish, invertebrate, and algae via an open access platform Global Diversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Freshwater Biodiversity Portal for Uganda (https://freshwaterbiodiversity.go.ug/). The Freshwater Biodiversity Portal…
Kenyan JRS grantee Media for Environment, Science, Health & Agriculture (MESHA) provides support to science journalists, with a focus on rural communicators. One of MESHA’s tools to disseminate learning is through their robust online publication Sanyansi magazine. The March 2022…
