16-NOV-2024 - A recent study conducted in Sint Maarten’s Man of War Shoal Marine Park has provided valuable insights into the ...

Reduction of the island of Rodrigues after the last ice age caused large-scale aggression in the extinct giant solitary ...

Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands will visit Sint Maarten and Saba from November 12 to 15. As the ...

19-MAY-2017 - Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced declines of animal numbers was lacking so far. An ...

25-FEB-2017 - Buttercup flowers are known for their intense, shiny yellow colour. For over a century, biologists have sought to understand why the buttercup stands out. University of Groningen ...

30-DEC-2015 - The biodiversity-rich rainforest in Africa is being converted to monoculture plantations of fast-growing exotic species. In Ghana, 95% of the 16 million seedlings supplied for planting ...

13-SEP-2018 - The first island of the new Marker Wadden is now open to the public. Visitors will be able to see for themselves how abundant nature has already become in this newest part of the ...

28-APR-2016 - Management measures aimed at restoring commercial stocks of marine fish, for example cod, is an efficient tool to decrease eutrophication effects in coastal areas. This is the main ...

15-OCT-2015 - In 2013 Dr. Martin de Graaf from IMARES noted an unusually high number of coral reef fish at the Salt Pier on Bonaire, infected with dermal parasites. Similar observations of coral reef ...

08-SEP-2017 - It is found in rivers, oceans, apparently untouched mountain lakes and the polar ice: no aquatic biotope is spared by microplastics. But which organisms colonize on this non-natural ...