Small mammals research in Kosovo
Little is known about the mammals of Kosovo. In October 2023 four members of the Dutch Youth Nature Club spent a week in Kosovo searching for (small) mammals and bats.…
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Telescope for Wildlife Montenegro
The Habitat Foundation supports nature researchers and conservationists in Eastern Europe. The support can be simple but nevertheless important. Recently, a telescope was donated to the NGO Wildlife Montenegro. Wildlife…
Field equipment for Ukrainian mammalogists
The Dutch Mammal Society donated 50 Longworth live traps to Ukrainian mammalogists.
Field equipment for researchers in Montenegro
Wildlife Montenegro received 50 Longworth live traps from the Dutch Mammal Society for their research on the distribution of small mammals in Montenegro. Situated in the Balkan, Montenegro hosts a…
A new species for the Greek fauna
While analysing the content of owl pellets from the district of Evros (Greece) researchers stumbled upon a very rare species: Myomimus roachi or the Mouse-tailed dormouse. The first recording of…
3 605 new records of mammals added to Ukrainian database
The Ukrainian Biodiversity Information Network (UkrBIN) stores sightings of plants and animals in Ukraine. During the Ukrainian Mammal Mapping Conference (UMMC) in March 2019, 24 researchers throughout Ukraine reported 3605…
Atlas bats of Albania
Albania published a Bat Atlas. For each of the 32 species, it shows maps with distribution data collected until November 2016. The maps have been built upon the division of…
European Mammals on MAps (EMMA2)
EMMA2 aims at revealing the distribution of 264 mammal species in an area of 11.59 million km2, from the Atlantic coast in the West to the Ural mountains in the…
Mammal Diversity Database
It appears that the number of currently recognized mammal species in the world increased from 5,416 to 6,495 species in the past 13 years! These are the findings of the…
1st meeting of the 2nd Mammal Atlas delivery group
In April 2018 the National coordinators, Topic coordinators and the Steering group of the second European Mammal Atlas will come together in Prague to share information about the progress of…