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…
In June, the SOS SAHEL team, accompanied by Mathieu Gueye, an ethnobotanist of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) conducted visits to three Dialacoto villages engaged in biodiversity monitoring training with support from a JRS planning grant. Local authorities and…
Introductory Slide from the Virtual Conservation Training Program On the 17th of June, 35 young, passionate conservationists from 7 West and Central African countries gathered online to kick off a 2-year conservation and species conservation planning training program organized by…
Private foundations have a unique opportunity to invest in solutions to complex problems and to do so for the long haul. Today, we announced two grants that can each be placed on a long arc of support for biodiversity information…
SEATTLE, Washington – September 05, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces two new grant awards, totaling $517,300, to support the development of curricula to train future biodiversity informaticists. The investments are part of JRS’ Capacity Development program to increase…
In November 2017, partners of the JRS Biodiversity Project “PINDIP” held a two-week training course in dipterology (the study of the two-winged or "true flies" for you non-dipterologists). The course provided researchers with a basic training on the identification and ecology…
