To monitor the ecological impact of wind turbines at sea, our institute coordinates an extensive monitoring programme that detects the environmental effects. The programme is fully operational since 2008.
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05/12/2017
Environmental Impact of Offshore Windfarms in Belgium
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04/12/2017
Scientists Finish ‘Atlas of life’
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Jonas Van BoxelAn international team of researchers has made a catalogue of all reptiles on Earth. It is the last chapter in the ‘Atlas of life’, the first global review of all vertebrates on our planet. The atlas can be an important tool for the conservation of wildlife.
26/10/2017
Palaeontologists Discovered a ‘Primitive Iguanodon’ With Scissor-like Teeth
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Reinout VerbekeA team of Belgian and French palaeontologists has described a new dinosaur species that had scissor-like teeth.
25/10/2017
Fossil Discovery of Pygmy Right Whales on Northern Hemisphere Rewrites Their History
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Jonas Van BoxelPalaeontologists have found two fossils of ancient pygmy right whales in Sicily and in Japan. The study, by an international team with researchers from our Institute, changes everything we thought we knew about this mysterious animal.
17/10/2017
Ornithologists Band Long-tailed Shrike at Zwin Nature Parc: New Species for Belgium
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Reinout VerbekeOur ornithologists have banded a Long-tailed Shrike at the Zwin Nature Reserve in Knokke. Never before was this species recorded in Belgium. It is only the fifth time that this Asiatic bird makes an appearance in Europe.
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