News & Calendar Biodiversity
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07 February 2023
New guidelines for cryoconservation of animal genetic resources now available online
- Cryoconservation of genetic resources in gene banks provides one of the most powerful tools to manage genetic diversity in both the short and long... -
20 January 2023
“Give fish a voice to improve our inland waters”
- Global biodiversity in freshwater is under pressure. Fish and humans have been connected since ancient times. Still, we know relatively little about... -
10 January 2023
Manatees equipped with cameras for seagrass research
- Animal keepers at Royal Burgers' Zoo are temporarily equipping Caribbean manatees with camera-tag technology as part of international scientific... -
04 January 2023
Better nitrogen management yields more than it costs
- Better management on agricultural lands to reduce nitrogen losses to the environment costs only a fraction of what it provides. This could yield... -
04 January 2023
Can food forests help to make agriculture more robust?
- Within a couple of years, hundreds of food forests have been planted in the Netherlands. ‘They produce food and at the same time contribute to... -
28 December 2022
COP15 final reflections from a student: richer countries came with much bigger delegations
- The Global Biodiversity Framework was almost four years in the making, and until the final moments it was not clear whether there would be a... -
22 December 2022
Sea turtles in a landscape of fear
- Many sea turtles live their adult lives in predator-free environments due to overfishing of their main predator, the tiger shark. Because of this, it... -
21 December 2022
WUR experts say biodiversity agreement is “enormous, necessary step”
- On 19 December, nearly 200 countries signed a historic agreement to protect the world’s biodiversity at the COP15 UN summit in Montreal. WUR... -
20 December 2022
Goals are important but indicators as well
- How to measure something as complex as human-wildlife conflicts -
19 December 2022
New brochure 'Nature-Positive Futures'
- Life on Earth is not possible without biodiversity and at least 40% of the world’s economy depends on biological resources. The status of...