Naturalis collaborates with Treeconomy and Nattergal for carbon removal
Naturalis will be collaborating with Treeconomy and Nattergal to deliver a purchase of carbon removal credits from a biodiversity recovery project. This unique collaboration aims to compensate for CO2 emissions by investing in a rewilding project in…
Naturalis will monitor natuur inclusive wind park "Noordzeker"
Naturalis Biodiversity Center will research and monitor how wind parks can contribute to biodiversity in the North Sea, with more detail than ever before. This is made possible by newly developed techniques for species identification and detection.
Herbarium sheets flimsies and cardstocks
The CollAction team brought the historical Herbarium collections into top condition. The old covers were replaced by the team with new acid-free covers. This way, the collection will last for multiple generations.
Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES) to address the challenges of global data reuse
Today, an international public-private partnership of eleven forward-thinking academic and private organisations announces its joint effort to establish the Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES). The founding partners of LIFES are the GO…
From slide to data: Botanical archive inventory
In May, the CollAction team inventoried more than 50,000 botanical slides from Wageningen University & Research. These are mostly photographs of plants in the field or in greenhouses. The team selected 3,000 slides to be included in our collection. These…
Bloody insights: Organs-on-chip ready to help snake venom research
A 3D model of imitation blood vessels will make it possible to see exactly how snake venom attacks blood vessels, without having to use laboratory animals. This new research model, called an organ-on-a-chip, was developed by a research team from Vrije…
Ice Age fossils neatly organized
Cave lion, brown bear, aurochs: they all could be found in the Netherlands, once, long ago during the Ice Age. The CollAction team didn't know that, but now we pass the skulls, bones, teeth through our hands every day, as we neatly store their fossils.
Beetle drawers soot, dust and gems
Much of the beetle drawer lids are quite to very dirty. The CollAction team has been working on the beetle drawers, producing many dirty black wipes, and clean glass covers. And occasionally we come across beetle gems.
Apollo butterflies full of surprises
The CollAction team was deployed to transfer about 120,000 Apollo butterflies to standard drawers. This work allows these butterflies to be used in science. During this task, the CollAction-team quickly encountered some surprises.