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Press Releases NIOZ 2013

25/01/2013 10:39

NIOZ is tracing birds fitted with transmitters in Mauritania

This month, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) has fitted migratory birds with transmitters in order to be able to trace them. On 10 January, Christine Lagarde, Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), released the first red knot fitted with a transmitter in the Parc National du Banc d'Arguin in Mauritania.

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17/01/2013 10:24

Biodiversity can now be monitored globally

A group of scientists has put forth a proposal for monitoring global changes in biodiversity. This proposal will be published in the scientific journal Science today. It will be presented at a conference in Bonn at the end of January. Rob Jongman from Alterra Wageningen UR and Carlo Heip from the Royal Dutch Institute for Sea Research have contributed to this proposal.

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