News & Calendar Biodiversity
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04 December 2023
Alumna Marion Bloemendal volunteers at the International Wageningen Alumni Chapter Belgium
- Ir Marion Bloemendal has been a driving force within the Wageningen Alumni Chapter Belgium for many years. Through the company visits organised by... -
30 November 2023
More than 700 students worldwide envision a nature-positive future for Bangladesh
- Visualize a future in which nature and humans work together to mitigate the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. That is the Nature-based... -
27 November 2023
Nature-based solutions: what are the options?
- Researchers at Wageningen have described how nature-based solutions could be used to make the Netherlands more sustainable. But what natural solutions... -
21 November 2023
Support the Nature-Based Future Challenge
- During the Nature-based Future Challenge, students will visualize the potential of the nature-based solutions to respond to the biggest challenges of... -
14 November 2023
Team KOMOREBI earns second place at the Biodiversity Hackathon
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13 November 2023
Diverse forests hold very large carbon potential
- New study estimates that natural forest recovery could capture approximately 226 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon, but only if we also reduce greenhouse gas... -
13 November 2023
Major expansion of Aruba’s protected wetlands under Ramsar Convention
- Aruba has seen a major increase of its wetland areas protected under the Ramsar Convention of Wetlands. On 10 November 2023 the Aruban Minister of... -
10 November 2023
How two new WUR-professors focus on the triangle of human, nature, and policy
- On the 16th of November 2023, two new professors at WUR, Maria Tengö and Georg Winkel, will deliver their inaugural speeches. Tengö will... -
31 October 2023
Microplastics are no longer so elusive
- The effects of microplastics on humans and animals are not so elusive as they might seem, thanks to better measurement and calculation methods.... -
23 October 2023
Petition calls for the proposed EU Soil Health Law to be supported, but also tightened
- The response of WUR soil scientists’ to the proposed EU Soil Health Law has been met with broad support among scientists of WUR and beyond....