Pollinator biodiversity has decreased in the past decades, but urban areas have increasingly been found to serve as a refuge when compared to the surrounding intensively managed farmland. This offers an opportunity for urban pollinator conservation to play a role in the conservation of pollinators. But …

Tropical peatlands cover around 45 million hectares of the world. Half of these peatlands are located in Indonesia, mostly on Kalimantan. Tropical peatlands are currently under threat due to land-use change, drainage and climate change. One of these locations under threat is Desa Gohong (Gohong village), …

Over the past fifty years, the disease chytridiomycosis has impacted at least 500 species of amphibians around the world. It is caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans, and while it causes sporadic mortality in some amphibian species, it completely wipes out …

Verslag van het congres 'Kleurrijk maatschappelijk werk, een boeiende ontwikkeling', georganiseerd door de Nederlandse Vereniging van Maatschappelijk Werkers (NVMW). Het congres vond plaats op 28 oktober 2008 in het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen in Amsterdam en stond in het teken van werken met …