What is
biodiversity?

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Go
green

Get started with nature tips and help the biodiversity in your area. With these five tips you help nature in your garden, neighborhood, at your neighborhood club, association or vegetable garden and motivate your environment.

Nature tips:  this is how you go green

View the tip sheet online or print the tip sheet and fold it in half (only available in Dutch). This way you always have your nature tips at hand.

Tip sheet with nature tips

Natuur onderzoeken

Participate
in real research

Naturalis conducts research into nature together with people like you and me. We use the results to increase our knowledge about biodiversity and for a better relationship between people and nature. See below which citizen science projects you can participate in.

Make
conscious choices

By making conscious choices, we can make a difference together. For example, vote for a green party that is committed to a better living environment for people and nature. Your eating habits also affect nature worldwide. By making plant-based food choices, you reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as CO2. So choose plant-based options whenever possible. Also, look critically at where you put your money. Among other things, you can opt for a bank that invests sustainably and has an eye for the interests of people, animals and nature.

Discover
nature in your area

Get to know the wildlife, plants and mushrooms around you better with the ObsIdentify app. ObsIdentify recognizes a great diversity of wild flora and fauna based on photos, names them, and provides facts about these species. With your observations you help to improve the automated species recognition and you contribute to knowledge about nature.

ObsIdentify

Your observations and those of others contribute to knowledge of nature. They are part of research on these species. Download the ObsIdentify app, log in with a Waarneming.nl account and discover nature.

Discover nature

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Biodiversity Helpdesk
Ask your question

The Biodiversity Helpdesk is the place where everyone can get a scientifically substantiated answer to questions about biodiversity. Go to the Biodiversity Helpdesk and ask your question! Only available in Dutch.

Biodiversity Helpdesk

Get active
yourself

There's a lot we can achieve if we all pitch in together. Check out the Duch website www.maakgroengroener.nl to see what you can do.

We all need biodiversity. To eat, to breathe, to enjoy. To be able to live. That is why we are committed to working together with more than 100 Dutch organizations (nature conservation organisations, farmers, knowledge institutions, banks, companies) to restore biodiversity. And you can also contribute to this by making gray greener.

This is how you make gray greener

Maak grijs groener

News
on biodiversity

The latest news about biodiversity, but with just a little more depth.

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Max van Balgooy during field work in Papua (1965), holding the inflorescence of an unspecified Araliaceae
September 6th, 2021

Botanist Max van Balgooy deceased

Dr. M.M.J. (Max) van Balgooy passed away on 3 September, aged 89. He started working with the Dutch National Herbarium (now a part of Naturalis) in 1961, and stayed working there until and after his retirement. He obtained his PhD with prof. Dr. Van…
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Cyme laeta Looijenga 2021, a newly described species of butterfly
August 3rd, 2021

New butterfly species discovered during internship

The butterfly species Cyme reticulata, which is found in Papua New Guinea, has many different morphological variations. Research has revealed that one of the variations is a different and previously undescribed species. Student Noortje Looijenga (18) from…
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Gloved hand holding eppendorfs
July 15th, 2021

Naturalis’ research receives top marks

The quality of the research at Naturalis is rated as “excellent”, research facilities are “state of the art”, the collection is “unique” and its relevance to society is no less than “world leading”. This was all said by an external top visitation committee…
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