The rivers of the Lake Victoria basin provide important ecosystem services for East Africa, including surface water for domestic use and fisheries for local communities. However, very little is known about the aquatic biodiversity that plays a role in providing…
JRS grantee Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (THRESCOAL), alongside their partners Project Mecistops (PM) and the Université de Nangui-Abrogoua (UNA), organized a successful in-person workshop at the Forestry Commission Training Centre in Kumasi, Ghana from January 15-19, 2024. This event convened…
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently gathered 36 experts, scientists, students, high-level government officials and representatives from civil society organizations from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Chad, Belgium, and the Central African Republic for a two-day International…
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…
Dr. Amy Lehman, her co-PI, Dr. Deo Mushagalusa, and the team from the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (LTFHC), recently shared mid-year findings of their data collection and survey project in the Lake Tanganyika and Ruzizi River basin as featured…
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…
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…
The Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) is a powerful, visual, data-rich information system for Southern African rivers and wetlands, serving over half a million biodiversity records for South Africa and surrounding regions (https://freshwaterbiodiversity.org/). The project, funded by the JRS Biodiversity…
An exciting partnership with BirdLife South Africa is emerging as the South Africa Biodiversity Data Pipeline for Wetlands and Waterbirds (BIRDIE) technical team learns more about bird red listing – anticipated to be a key indicator for the BIRDIE Project. …
In October 2021, InfoNile brought together 16 journalists for a weeklong training in Uganda promoting data-based and science-based journalism about freshwater biodiversity issues in the Nile Basin. This training is part of Water Journalists Africa's JRS-funded project to connect journalists…
