Uit het onderzoek is gebleken dat de ganzenpopulaties in Nederland de laatste jaren sterk zijn toegenomen. Dit wordt vooral veroorzaakt door het feit dat er voldoende voedsel (op landbouwgronden) en broedhabitat (op natte natuurterreinen) binnen Nederland aanwezig zijn. De populatie grauwe ganzen in …

In many countries the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is extinct or numbers are declining; resulting in a classification as “near threatened” on the IUCN’s Red List. In one-third of the European countries, however, conservation efforts, enabled the return of the species or the improvement of weakened populations. …

De onderhandelingen tussen de EU en de VS (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP) begonnen in 2013. Ze hebben als doel het slechten van handelsbarrières en het harmoniseren en standaardiseren van voorschriften. In de thesis wordt onderzocht, in hoeverre de regelgeving in de EU op het …

Despite changing attitudes towards animal testing and current legislation to protect experimental animals, the rate of animal experiments seems to have changed little in recent years. On May 15–16, 2013, the In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform (IVTIP) held an open meeting to discuss the state of the …

This chapter addresses environmental education as an important subject of anthropological inquiry and demonstrates how ethnographic research can contribute to our understanding of environmental learning both in formal and informal settings. Anthropology of environmental education is rich in ethnographies …

The present research has been conducted to make a first step towards bringing the wildlife research on free roaming horses and the research on domesticated horses closer together. Housing systems for horses should be arranged in a way, so that the animals are least constrained in their natural development …

Due to improved zoo practices, longevity in zoo animals has increased. In comparison to the wild, many species become much older in captivity. Senescence follows a different path in each species and is therefore hard to generalize towards other species. Insights into the process of senescence in animals …

Vanaf 2015 vinden er veranderingen plaats in het gebruik van het persoonsgebonden budget (pgb). Het pgb kan nu nog via de Algemene Wet Bijzonde Ziektekosten aangevraagd worden. Vanaf 2015 loopt dit via de Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning (Wmo). De Wmo wordt uitgevoerd door de gemeenten. Iedere gemeente …

Probiotic bacteria harbor effector molecules that confer health benefits, but also adaptation factors that enable them to persist in the gastrointestinal tract of the consumer. To study these adaptation factors, an antibiotic-resistant derivative of the probiotic model organism Lactobacillus plantarum …