Karst Hydrology in Action – Yorkshire Dales, UK
I spent a few days in the Yorkshire Dales in the UK, which is a typical karst landscape. Karst is the way in which limestone landscapes are formed, and it…
I spent a few days in the Yorkshire Dales in the UK, which is a typical karst landscape. Karst is the way in which limestone landscapes are formed, and it…
One of the interesting pilot projects INBAR embarked upon in 2012 was to test if bamboo and rattan could be used to construct rainwater catchment tanks for local communities in…
One of the Swiss World Heritage sites is melting! Switzerland has 11 properties inscribed under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, three of which are natural sites. One of these is…
For the last weeks, I have been busy checking fact and figures about wetlands. I learned a lot! Did you know that an oasis is a wetland? And did you…
During the discussions yesterday at the workshop in Paris organised by the Biodiversity Knowledge initiative (see my Blog on 17 January), an interesting question was raised. How do scientists and…
I wrote about the beaver in a previous story, as an example of conservation success in the Netherlands. I have read stories that they are also coming back to the…
