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Competition « 1001 ideas – Save biodiversity »
01/10/2015

Competition « 1001 ideas – Save biodiversity »

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Charlotte Degueldre

Our ways of life and of consumption have an enormous impact on biodiversity all over the planet. The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences therefore challenges everyone to come up with original ideas to protect biodiversity.

Commander Tabureau, Commander Van Tricht, Operational Director RBINS Patrick Roose (picture J.Urbain, mil.be).
18/09/2015

New commander on RV Belgica

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On Friday the 11th of September 2015, Bernard Tabureau took over the command of the oceanographic research vessel RV Belgica from Luc Van Tricht in Temse.

'The Gallery of Humankind - Our evolution, our body' was nominated for the International Design and Communication Award (IDCA), in the category 'Best Scenography for a Permanent Collection' (Photos: RBINS and Koen Broos)
09/09/2015

Gallery of Humankind got bronze at International Design and Communciation Awards 2015

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Reinout Verbeke
Artists’ impression of three individuals of the extinct beaked whale Messapicetus gregarious. They feed on sardines close to the water surface, along the coast of what is now Peru. (Image: A. Gennari)
09/09/2015

Fossilised Meal Illustrates Habitat Shift of Beaked Whales

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Reinout Verbeke

Our colleague, palaeontologist Olivier Lambert, has found a 9 million year old fossil of a beaked whale and its last meal. This extremely rare find suggests that part of the beaked whales lived close to the water surface at that time, while the modern species are deep divers.

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17/08/2015

Public Consultation for Offshore Wind Farm Northwester 2

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Reinout Verbeke

Near the sandbank Blighbank, about 46 km off the Northsea coast, NV Northwester 2 wants to build an offshore wind farm. The firm has introduced a request for the environmental permit for the construction and exploitation of the wind farm at the beginning of July.

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