Blogs, News and Events

2022 Dec 27

Celebrating the World Day of Epidemic Preparedness – biodiversity as a key player in fighting new epidemic outbreaks

The International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on December 27 serves the purpose of creating awareness about epidemics.

2022 Nov 24

BCOMING just started! A Horizon Europe project that protects biodiversity

Biological samples as well as epidemiological, ecological, socio-economic and environmental data will be collected in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems across all BCOMING study sites, while standardising and complementing the data collection initiated by the consortium members in their ongoing collaborative projects.

2022 Nov 24

Ivory Coast/LIBERIA: towards the conservation of the Taï-Grebo-Sapo forest complex

The 4th edition of the African Days of Ecology and Climate Change, which opened on October 7, 2022 in Alepe, Ivory Coast, was an opportunity for the Ivorian government to present the Biodiversity Conservation Project in the Taï-Grebo-Sapo forest complex, which borders Liberia.

2022 Nov 04

BCOMING Advisory Board Meeting

During our 1^st Advisory Board meeting, which took place on the 4^th of November, we were glad to e-meet our Advisory Board members and discuss the project’s vision and objectives.

2022 Oct 07

Ministry: Snares threaten biodiversity

Snares remained a challenge for wildlife in Cambodia’s protected areas, and result in the loss of many of the Kingdom’s endangered species.

In order to address the problem, in 2021, the Ministry of Environment and partner organisations removed over 60,000 snares from 72 protected areas and biodiversity corridors in Cambodia. On a more local level, new measures are being employed.

2022 Oct 07

Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks

In 2014, as temperatures topped 40° Celsius, or 104° Fahrenheit, in eastern Australia, half of the region’s black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) population perished, with thousands of the bats succumbing to the heat in one day.

2022 Oct 07

Ministry wants people in hotspots to test for malaria

The Health Ministry is pushing for people who live in malaria hot spots to be tested for the serious and often fatal disease to be stepped up.

2022 Oct 07

A massive effort to map the world’s plant biodiversity

Two major scientific publications have just revealed some surprising findings about the world’s plant biodiversity. The first refutes a widely accepted theory : the climate is not the only factor explaining biodiversity in tropical forests. The second study shows that on a local scale, the Amazon rainforest and the steppes of Eastern Europe can harbour an equivalent number of plant species.

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BCOMING kick-off meeting

On 12-14 September 2022, BCOMING partners met in Montpellier to discuss next steps.

2022 Oct 06

BCOMING in the news! Maladies émergentes : le Cirad de Montpellier décroche la coordination d'un projet de recherche européen

Julien Cappelle, vétérinaire et écologue de la santé au Cirad de Montpellier, pilote le projet qui mobilisera une centaine de scientifiques dans huit pays. Objectif : repérer les risques d'émergence de nouveaux virus et proposer des solutions concrètes pour éviter une nouvelle pandémie.