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…
Professor Daniel H. Janzen, founder and Chair of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund's (GDFCF) Board of Directors, and Costa Rica's INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad), have been selected to be co-awardees of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize. Established in 1992,…
The University of Cape Town's Animal Demography Unit (UCT ADU), in partnership with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), launches their book Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland on April 16, 2014. This publication…
(Belize City - February 12, 2014) The Healthy Reefs Initiative (HRI) has recently released their 2014 Eco-Audit to help protect the natural, striking beauty of the Mesoamerican Reef. The Mesoamerican Reef extends over 600 miles from the northern tip of the…
To help conserve one of Earth’s ecological treasures, the New York Botanical Garden today announced a multifaceted program today that aims to dramatically improve the management and sustainable use of the Brazilian Amazon forest, part of the largest expanse of…
"In 1799 the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and his companions set out from Caracas, Venezuela, to climb the Andes. They struggled up a mountainside enveloped in mist so thick they had to clamber over rocks by hand. When the…
The framework arose from the Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, sponsored in part by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, which gathered around 100 experts in Copenhagen in July, 2012, to identify critical questions relating to biodiversity and tools needed answer them. Workshop leaders at…
ElephantVoices, a 2012 JRS grantee, takes center stage in the post "Name that Elephant: How to Identify Elephants in the Wild" by Christy Ullrich of National Geographic in A Voice for Elephants on August 16, 2013. Read about Joyce Poole and Petter Granli's Elephant Partners, a project…
Bat calls from Kenya from The Field Museum on Vimeo. JRS is pleased to join with other funders in support of work by by Dr. Bruce Patterson fo the Field Museum and research associate Paul Webala (Moi University, Kenya) who…
