SEATTLE, Washington – January 30, 2015 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announced today three new grants that offer effective approaches to making biodiversity data more accessible in sub-Saharan Africa. The funding to the African Conservation Centre’s biodiversity portal in Kenya…
JRS was certified last week by the Foundation Center's Glass Pockets initiative to promote transparency of private U.S. foundations in an online world. The certification reflects that the JRS Biodiversity Foundation is meeting (or beating) the highest recognized standard for…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 16, 2015 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced funding for three new grants that support biodiversity policy research. These grants will create a better understanding of the policy landscape among African countries that shapes the…
JRS is pleased to welcome our newest Trustee for 2015 - Souleymane Konaté. Souleymane Konaté is a professor in ecology at the University Nangui Abrogoua (Côte d’Ivoire), where he is currently leading a research unit on Ecology and Biodiversity (UREB). Souleymane…
CyberTracker founder, Louis Liebenberg writes in today's Guardian in Citizen science: creating an inclusive, global network for conservation: "Imagine communities throughout the world gathering data, from remote villages in the Kalahari, the Congo, Australia and Mongolia, to school children in…
The Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt of Colombia has published a new book on the Tropical Dry Forests of Colombia, "El Bosque Seco Tropical en Colombia." Tropical dry forests are one of the most endangered, yet least studied…
SEATTLE, Washington -- August 12, 2014 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced the five grant recipients from its January 2014 call for innovative grant proposals in the field of biodiversity informatics. These grants cover diverse approaches to collecting and creating access to…
This is the question I asked myself last year when I joined JRS. I knew that private U.S. foundations often powerfully serve their missions by advancing policy research and analysis. But what would that mean for JRS? Last Friday, JRS…
SEATTLE, August 8, 2014 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce the funding of two new awards that expand upon the outstanding work of two previous grants. JRS awards funding to the Université d'Abomey-Calavi (Benin) and to Tulane University (USA) to continue…
Earth Day 2014 is today - a day to celebrate the beauty of the earth and to take action as human activity relentlessly erodes the biodiversity that supports life. According to the Earth Day Network, one billion people worldwide will…
