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Botanical scouting
I spent a beautiful spring day last week in one of Brussels’ most fairy-tale-like places: the botanical garden Jean Massart. This little piece of biodiversity sits in a picturesque valley bordering the E411 highway and that famous chunk of Brussels … Continue reading
Bluebell beauty
This would normally be the season where we take the students to the beautiful Hallerbos, close to Brussels, to teach them all about forest types and keystone plant species. This trip would importantly also involve stunning purple fields of bluebells … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Bluebells, Flowers, Forest, Hallerbos, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Spring
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iNaturalist
Natural history – the science of nature observation – has taken a rocket into the 21st century, and I love it. The ‘rocket’ I am talking about is called iNaturalist, and it is an app that allows anybody in the … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged App, Citizen science, iNaturalist, Nature, Plant photography, Plants, Science, Spring
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Dark diversity
Spring finally arrived here in Belgium, and with that spring the fieldwork vibe inevitably starts blossoming as well. To get that fieldwork vibe up to speed, we headed north of Antwerp, to the ‘Kalmthoutse Heide’, a large swath of semi-natural … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Biodiversity, Ecology, Heathland, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Photography, Science, Spring
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Field season kick-off
Last week, we celebrated the kick-off of 2018s field season, and as usual we did that with a student field trip to the Hallerbos, the world-famous purple forest that gets filled with bluebells in spring. We like to take the … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgium, Ecology, Flower photography, Hallerbos, Macro photography, Nature, Nature photography, Plant ecology, Spring, Spring flowers
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