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…
Biodiversity data is put to many different uses and access to data can make connections among disparate stakeholders in biodiversity's benefits. If you enjoy a good margarita, you have bats to thank. Bats and the agave plants from which tequila…
Photo: M. W. Mansell Researchers at the University of Pretoria (grant page) working to document South Africa's Neuroptera, a group of insects that includes lacewings and antlions, recently published their discovery of a new species. The antlion, Pamexis hantam, is lichenophilous, which…
JRS Biodiversity grantees and colleagues, Manuel António E. Malaquias, Lena T. Ohnheiser, Trond R. Oskars, and Endre Willassen, at the University of Bergen (JRS grant page) announced four new-to-science species of gastropod this month discovered during extensive surveys of marine invertebrates along the West African…
Following up on an article in the The African Technopolitan Magazine in January of this year (previous news post), Dr. Aime Tsinda from the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) in Rwanda (project website) published a review of East African biodiversity informatics policies in the…
The rapid growth of Tanzania's Biodiversity Information Management Tool (BIMT) is turning heads. The first database of its kind in the country, the BIMT was created in 2011 by the National Land Use Planning Commission (grant page), and its growth is managed…
A new study of digitally-available plant data from Benin by JRS grantee Jean Ganglo and co-author Sunday Kakpo at Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques (JRS grant page) helps prioritize opportunities to strengthen biodiversity knowledge in the West African country. Ganglo and Kakpo's study evaluated freely-available…
One of the core tenets of coral reef conservation is challenged by a new assessment of long-term observational data from the Mesoamerican Reef. Coral reefs worldwide support high tropical marine biodiversity, but face a barrage of threats, including rising ocean temperatures and acidity, decreases…
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…
We are pleased to share the announcement of the publication of an excellent review of east African policies on biodiversity informatics by Dr. Aime Tsinda, Roger Mugisha, Lillian Mutesi, Alfred Bizoza and Pamela Abbott at the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research in…
