SEATTLE, Washington – SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce two new planning grants, totaling $45,000, to support project development of freshwater biodiversity information systems in Zambia and in South Africa. Both projects are part…
There are many variants on the saying that you don't actually want to see how the sausage is made, and this is often applied to law and policy. We hope that seeing how foundation strategy is made is a little…
Biodiversity informatics tells us what we know about which species of plants and animals live where. But, just as importantly, it also helps identify what we don't know. In a new paper, JRS Grantee, Dr. Alex Asase of the University of Ghana (JRS…
A year ago, I wrote that JRS was making its first grants to explore the policies that drive the demand for biodiversity data and information and the supply of biodiversity data and information in "Learning by Doing: New Policy Research…
JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce a grant of $29,000 made to the Wildlife Conservation Society to facilitate the planning of an online data portal for lemurs in Madagascar. The project will build partnerships with stakeholders in the lemur conservation community to evaluate the…
As JRS welcomes the new year, we are excited to start 2016 with two new members of the JRS Board of Trustees: Dr. Sandy Andelman and Dr. Sarah Lynch. Sandy Andelman is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President for Conservation International. She…
Prefacing the recent Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG) conference in Nairobi, the Biodiversity Heritage Library of Africa gathered fifteen representatives from eleven institutions throughout South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda for a BHL partner workshop. The BHL Africa Workshop was an opportunity to provide training…
A team of botanists, including JRS grantees from the Missouri Botanical Garden and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, took Analamazoatra/Perinet Reserve by storm during a botanical bio-blitz. Following a few intensive training sessions with the Android version of iNaturalist, including a guest lecture from iNaturalist…
SEATTLE, Washington – August 5, 2015 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced a new $94,000 grant to study the role of biodiversity information on national policy cycles in Latin America. The research will be led by NatureServe researcher Dr.…
We've all heard the one about the tree falling in the forest, but here's your biodiversity koan for the day: If a biodiversity datum is produced, and no one can find it, does it create change? JRS Biodiversity Foundation contracted an independent study…
