New Dragonfly Book and African Training Opportunity

Description

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra (Naturalis and Stellenbosch University) and colleague Viola Clausnitzer (Senckenberg Institute) have published “The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern Africa: Handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe.”  This handbook provides an unprecedented resource for freshwater biodiversity conservation in Africa. The book is published by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) with support from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands), JRS, and research funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany).

Geographical coverage

Africa,

Keywords

grants, training, funding,

Release date

16/02/2015

Details (HTML)

With JRS Biodiversity foundation support to Stellenbosch University, the project team can distribute 100 free copies to African researchers and students. The organizers can also sponsor 20 delegates to attend a training workshop on applying freshwater insects in biodiversity monitoring, planned in KwaZulu-Natal in December 2015.  More details about the community and attendance at the training workshop can be found through the African Dragonflies Facebook page

Expiration date

31/03/2015

Concerned URL

http://jrsbiodiversity.org/new-dragonfly-book-and-african-training-opportunity/

Source

JRS Biodiversity foundation