Biodiversiteit nieuws
Op deze pagina presenteerd NLBIF een selectie van nationaal en internationaal biodiversiteitnieuws afkomstig van verschillende nieuws-sites, de berichten worden gefilterd op basis van relevantie voor biodiversiteit en wetenschap.
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Camera trap videos help protect biodiversity of Bigal River Biological Reserve in Ecuador
09 / 08 / 2018, Mongabaycom NewsBigal River Biological Reserve was created in 2008 in the foothill forests of northeastern Ecuador, on the Amazonian side of the Andean slopes. The private protected area is located in the...
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Mojave Desert birds crashed over the last century due to climate change
07 / 08 / 2018, Science DailyMore than 100 years ago, biologists conducted a thorough survey of birds in the Mojave Desert. A recent resurvey shows that the species richness of the desert habitat has dropped by 43 percent...
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Experts seek to protect rare colony of seahorses in northern Greece
07 / 08 / 2018, Yahoo ScienceDiver Vasilis Mentogiannis is campaigning to protect a unique site in a remote gulf in north-eastern Greece where seahorses - a protected species ravaged by pollution and overfishing - are...
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Empowering whistleblowers is the key to combating wildlife crime
07 / 08 / 2018, IUCNWhistleblowers have been effective at combatting financial and corporate crime, but are sorely lacking in the sphere of wildlife crime. If empowered to combat it, whistleblowers could be...
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Biodiversity and the society of superlatives (commentary)
03 / 08 / 2018, Mongabaycom NewsTraveling through the jungles of Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon, it is difficult not to feel stunned by the amount of biological diversity in these forests. Writing about the...
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Tricky taxonomy: the problems with naming new species – Science Weekly podcast
03 / 08 / 2018, The GuardianSpecies are hard to define, as they don’t fit neatly into the categories that science wants to put them into. But increasingly, people are naming new species without enough evidence to suggest...
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The new tree of life of freshwater macroinvertebrates in the European continent
03 / 08 / 2018, Eureka AlertA study from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio-UB) analysed how water macroinvertebrate species, such as beetles, mosquitos and...
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Disease is threatening the most plentiful starfish in Antarctica
02 / 08 / 2018, Science DailyA study led by experts from the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Biology and Institute for Research on Biodiversity (IRBio) have identified a disease that is affecting the starfish Odontaster...
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95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction, experts say
02 / 08 / 2018, Mongabaycom NewsTogether with other leading primate conservationists, Russell Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer for the NGO Global Wildlife Conservation and recently announced winner of the 2018...
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In Peru, a new president is faced with old conservation challenges
02 / 08 / 2018, Mongabaycom NewsMANU NATIONAL PARK, Peru — There was movement in the understory deep in the dense rainforest off Trail 6. We saw a shadow scurry left to right, followed by more rustling. White-lipped peccary....