BioMongol Foundation
@biomongol.bsky.social
Netherlands based, BioMongol facilitates entomological research expeditions to Mongolia. We study insect biodiversity in this huge, diverse, land-locked country.
And we monitor restoration projects.
Support our mission: https://www.biomongol.org/contact
And we monitor restoration projects.
Support our mission: https://www.biomongol.org/contact
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BioMongol Foundation facilitates research expeditions to Mongolia. We focus on Arthropoda. And not to forget other biotic and abiotic beauties of the country.
The country faces many challenges, climate change, desertification, mining, among others. All deserve our attention.
The country faces many challenges, climate change, desertification, mining, among others. All deserve our attention.
Alex Cobb is recruiting for fully funded PhD students with interests in all aspects of natural and human-influenced, short- and long-term processes in wetlands, especially peatlands, and I am excited to develop specific projects collaboratively with the student
dynamicpeatlands.org/joining-the-...
dynamicpeatlands.org/joining-the-...
Opportunities to join Alex Cobb's group
PhD, postdoc, Masters and undergraduate opportunities with Alex Cobb's group at the Asian School of the Environment.
dynamicpeatlands.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Alex Cobb is recruiting for fully funded PhD students with interests in all aspects of natural and human-influenced, short- and long-term processes in wetlands, especially peatlands, and I am excited to develop specific projects collaboratively with the student
dynamicpeatlands.org/joining-the-...
dynamicpeatlands.org/joining-the-...
#Propaganda voor #defensie kan niet vroeg genoeg beginnen?
Komt er ook een 'grappig' #Sinterklaasjournaal met de Sint als #klimaatvluchteling?
vredessite.nl/nieuws/sinte...
Komt er ook een 'grappig' #Sinterklaasjournaal met de Sint als #klimaatvluchteling?
vredessite.nl/nieuws/sinte...
Oorlog in Sinterklaasjournaal
vredessite.nl
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#Propaganda voor #defensie kan niet vroeg genoeg beginnen?
Komt er ook een 'grappig' #Sinterklaasjournaal met de Sint als #klimaatvluchteling?
vredessite.nl/nieuws/sinte...
Komt er ook een 'grappig' #Sinterklaasjournaal met de Sint als #klimaatvluchteling?
vredessite.nl/nieuws/sinte...
A dangerous misconception persists in financial circles: nature finance is only about conservation projects with disappointing returns.
This view is not just overly narrow and wrong; it's undermining efforts to halt biodiversity loss at the scale and speed required.
www.forbes.com/sites/ninase...
This view is not just overly narrow and wrong; it's undermining efforts to halt biodiversity loss at the scale and speed required.
www.forbes.com/sites/ninase...
The Nature Finance Myth We Must Bust To Save Biodiversity
Here's what most financial institutions are missing: they already possess the tools to redirect these harmful flows toward nature recovery.
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A dangerous misconception persists in financial circles: nature finance is only about conservation projects with disappointing returns.
This view is not just overly narrow and wrong; it's undermining efforts to halt biodiversity loss at the scale and speed required.
www.forbes.com/sites/ninase...
This view is not just overly narrow and wrong; it's undermining efforts to halt biodiversity loss at the scale and speed required.
www.forbes.com/sites/ninase...
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Historic move: California will join the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the first U.S. state to do so. A bold stand for global climate leadership, biodiversity, and 30×30 conservation goals.
youtu.be/9BaVXf6r_Bg #ClimateAction #IUCN #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Activist360
youtu.be/9BaVXf6r_Bg #ClimateAction #IUCN #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Activist360
California Seeks to Join International Union for Conservation of Nature
YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Historic move: California will join the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the first U.S. state to do so. A bold stand for global climate leadership, biodiversity, and 30×30 conservation goals.
youtu.be/9BaVXf6r_Bg #ClimateAction #IUCN #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Activist360
youtu.be/9BaVXf6r_Bg #ClimateAction #IUCN #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Activist360
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Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent
The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration's plans.
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
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Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Die graphic was naar aanleiding van deze publicatie
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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De nieuwe cijfers zijn binnen
De ijskap van Groenland heeft het afgelopen jaar 105 gigaton ijs verloren
Dat is 105.000.000.000.000 kg
@leonsimons.bsky.social heeft vorig jaar een graphic gemaakt om te laten zien hoeveel ijs er per uur gemiddeld (30 miljoen ton) smelt
Houd je vast!
Per uur
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De ijskap van Groenland heeft het afgelopen jaar 105 gigaton ijs verloren
Dat is 105.000.000.000.000 kg
@leonsimons.bsky.social heeft vorig jaar een graphic gemaakt om te laten zien hoeveel ijs er per uur gemiddeld (30 miljoen ton) smelt
Houd je vast!
Per uur
1/
September 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
De nieuwe cijfers zijn binnen
De ijskap van Groenland heeft het afgelopen jaar 105 gigaton ijs verloren
Dat is 105.000.000.000.000 kg
@leonsimons.bsky.social heeft vorig jaar een graphic gemaakt om te laten zien hoeveel ijs er per uur gemiddeld (30 miljoen ton) smelt
Houd je vast!
Per uur
1/
De ijskap van Groenland heeft het afgelopen jaar 105 gigaton ijs verloren
Dat is 105.000.000.000.000 kg
@leonsimons.bsky.social heeft vorig jaar een graphic gemaakt om te laten zien hoeveel ijs er per uur gemiddeld (30 miljoen ton) smelt
Houd je vast!
Per uur
1/
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we moeten het weer hebben over oude bosgroeiplaatsen in Gelderland.
Dit kaartje toont de beschermde natuur in Gelderland, het "gelders natuurnetwerk", dus Natura 2000 gebied, en andere beschermde natuur zoals landgoederen, ecologische verbindingen, vogelrichtlijngebied zoals Arkemheen.
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Dit kaartje toont de beschermde natuur in Gelderland, het "gelders natuurnetwerk", dus Natura 2000 gebied, en andere beschermde natuur zoals landgoederen, ecologische verbindingen, vogelrichtlijngebied zoals Arkemheen.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
we moeten het weer hebben over oude bosgroeiplaatsen in Gelderland.
Dit kaartje toont de beschermde natuur in Gelderland, het "gelders natuurnetwerk", dus Natura 2000 gebied, en andere beschermde natuur zoals landgoederen, ecologische verbindingen, vogelrichtlijngebied zoals Arkemheen.
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Dit kaartje toont de beschermde natuur in Gelderland, het "gelders natuurnetwerk", dus Natura 2000 gebied, en andere beschermde natuur zoals landgoederen, ecologische verbindingen, vogelrichtlijngebied zoals Arkemheen.
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Much worse than predicted
Antarctica’s frozen heart is warming fast, and models missed it
New research reveals that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Antarctica’s frozen heart is warming fast, and models missed it
New research reveals that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Antarctica’s frozen heart is warming fast, and models missed it
New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather statio...
www.sciencedaily.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Much worse than predicted
Antarctica’s frozen heart is warming fast, and models missed it
New research reveals that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Antarctica’s frozen heart is warming fast, and models missed it
New research reveals that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
BioMongol Foundation is partner in these #peat restoration projects in #Mongolia, by means of monitoring #insect populations and #biodiversity.
www.wetlands.org/project-upda...
www.wetlands.org/project-upda...
Project update: peatland restoration in Mongolia - Wetlands International
Since 2024, Wetlands International and partners have been implementing a five-year project to restore degraded peatlands in Mongolia. The project focuses on four areas – Mungunmorit , Khurkh, Khashaat...
www.wetlands.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
BioMongol Foundation is partner in these #peat restoration projects in #Mongolia, by means of monitoring #insect populations and #biodiversity.
www.wetlands.org/project-upda...
www.wetlands.org/project-upda...
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Yet another seriously alarming study on the Colorado! Action needed now to #SavetheColorado
“Everybody needs to be looking at ways to cut [water use] right now" - Jack Schmidt, director of Utah State University’s Center for Colorado River Studies
“Everybody needs to be looking at ways to cut [water use] right now" - Jack Schmidt, director of Utah State University’s Center for Colorado River Studies
Seven states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado River, experts warn in a new analysis.
“We’ve got a real problem,” researcher Jack Schmidt says. “Reclamation needs to address all this right now and begin to implement cuts.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
“We’ve got a real problem,” researcher Jack Schmidt says. “Reclamation needs to address all this right now and begin to implement cuts.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
The dwindling Colorado River can’t wait for states to cut water use, experts say
A group of leading experts on the Colorado River say Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis.
www.latimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yet another seriously alarming study on the Colorado! Action needed now to #SavetheColorado
“Everybody needs to be looking at ways to cut [water use] right now" - Jack Schmidt, director of Utah State University’s Center for Colorado River Studies
“Everybody needs to be looking at ways to cut [water use] right now" - Jack Schmidt, director of Utah State University’s Center for Colorado River Studies
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Dear friends, please support my goals with a donation to the foundation. Bayarlala!
www.biomongol.org/contact
It will be well spent!
www.biomongol.org/contact
It will be well spent!
Contact & Donations – BioMongol Foundation
www.biomongol.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
www.wwf.eu
September 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
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It’s highly classified
September 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It’s highly classified
While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
www.wwf.eu
September 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
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Na het Programma Aanpak Stikstof #pas en de Structurele Aanpak Stikstof #sas komt #wiersma #bbb nu met de #FAS, de Fictieve Aanpak Stikstof.
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
Samen met @raoulbeunen.bsky.social geven we wat context bij de #spoedwet #stikstof de #kdw en de #habitatrichtlijn.
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
Samen met @raoulbeunen.bsky.social geven we wat context bij de #spoedwet #stikstof de #kdw en de #habitatrichtlijn.
Nature Today | De Fictieve Aanpak Stikstof (FAS)
Het is moeilijk om het nog in neutrale termen te verwoorden, maar na een hele serie ondeugdelijke wetsvoorstellen probeert demissionair kabinet-Schoof er op de valreep nog eentje door te duwen: de spo...
www.naturetoday.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Na het Programma Aanpak Stikstof #pas en de Structurele Aanpak Stikstof #sas komt #wiersma #bbb nu met de #FAS, de Fictieve Aanpak Stikstof.
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
Samen met @raoulbeunen.bsky.social geven we wat context bij de #spoedwet #stikstof de #kdw en de #habitatrichtlijn.
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
Samen met @raoulbeunen.bsky.social geven we wat context bij de #spoedwet #stikstof de #kdw en de #habitatrichtlijn.
Dear friends, please support my goals with a donation to the foundation. Bayarlala!
www.biomongol.org/contact
It will be well spent!
www.biomongol.org/contact
It will be well spent!
Contact & Donations – BioMongol Foundation
www.biomongol.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'Vermogensbeheerders VS beïnvloeden duurzaamheidsdoelen Nederlandse bedrijven'
bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-2342...
bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-2342...
bijlagen.nos.nl
August 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
'Vermogensbeheerders VS beïnvloeden duurzaamheidsdoelen Nederlandse bedrijven'
bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-2342...
bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-2342...
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⛰️ A groundbreaking German study proved that pesticides spread much further from the field than previously believed. They detected #pesticides at every location, 63 in total.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...
www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...
Pesticides contaminate on a landscape scale - far beyond the fields
A new groundbreaking study A new groundbreaking German study proves that pesticides spread much further from the field than previously believed. A team of scientists led by Professor Dr. Carsten Brühl...
www.pan-europe.info
August 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
⛰️ A groundbreaking German study proved that pesticides spread much further from the field than previously believed. They detected #pesticides at every location, 63 in total.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...
www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...
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Buitengewoon ernstig dit. Onderzoeker @vlinderstichting.bsky.social @soortennl.nl met de dood bedreigd vanwege onderzoek naar #pesticiden.
Het rapport is offline gehaald.
www.gelderlander.nl/wageningen/o...
Het rapport is offline gehaald.
www.gelderlander.nl/wageningen/o...
Onderzoeker met dood bedreigd: Vlinderstichting haalt rapport over pesticiden offline
Een onderzoeker van de Vlinderstichting is met de dood bedreigd na publicatie van een onderzoek naar pesticiden in natuurgebieden. De stichting heeft het onderzoek nu offline gehaald. „Het is absurd d...
www.gelderlander.nl
August 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Buitengewoon ernstig dit. Onderzoeker @vlinderstichting.bsky.social @soortennl.nl met de dood bedreigd vanwege onderzoek naar #pesticiden.
Het rapport is offline gehaald.
www.gelderlander.nl/wageningen/o...
Het rapport is offline gehaald.
www.gelderlander.nl/wageningen/o...
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Please watch this talk by George Monbiot to the Dartmoor Parks Authority.
It tells you so much about the lies we are being told about our countryside and national parks. How “conservation” is often about keeping our landscapes barren and lifeless.
youtu.be/SYdm6k1tg3Y?...
It tells you so much about the lies we are being told about our countryside and national parks. How “conservation” is often about keeping our landscapes barren and lifeless.
youtu.be/SYdm6k1tg3Y?...
Time to go wild: George Monbiot
YouTube video by Dartmoor National Park
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July 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please watch this talk by George Monbiot to the Dartmoor Parks Authority.
It tells you so much about the lies we are being told about our countryside and national parks. How “conservation” is often about keeping our landscapes barren and lifeless.
youtu.be/SYdm6k1tg3Y?...
It tells you so much about the lies we are being told about our countryside and national parks. How “conservation” is often about keeping our landscapes barren and lifeless.
youtu.be/SYdm6k1tg3Y?...
Our current #BioMongol entomological expedition near Hövsgöl lake in #Mongolia: challenges due to wet weather conditions 😁
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Our current #BioMongol entomological expedition near Hövsgöl lake in #Mongolia: challenges due to wet weather conditions 😁
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The EU has banned the #PFAS #pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health & contaminates groundwater with #TFA. Yet, this dangerous pesticide will continue to be used for up to 18 months, according to the official EU decision. @umwelthilfe.bsky.social
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
PAN Europe and DUH object to 18 month ‘grace’ period for Flufenacet - Banned for its toxicity to children’s development and water pollution
The EU has banned the PFAS pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater with its breakdown PFAS product, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a smaller but still toxi...
www.pan-europe.info
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The EU has banned the #PFAS #pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health & contaminates groundwater with #TFA. Yet, this dangerous pesticide will continue to be used for up to 18 months, according to the official EU decision. @umwelthilfe.bsky.social
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
4-6th June, visited peat bogs protection and restoration project at Mungunmorit (Töv province, Mongolia), by #WSCC Mongolia. Such projects cannot be done without proper monitoring. BioMongol will take up monitoring of insects and teach local scientists to perform collecting. (1/2)
June 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
4-6th June, visited peat bogs protection and restoration project at Mungunmorit (Töv province, Mongolia), by #WSCC Mongolia. Such projects cannot be done without proper monitoring. BioMongol will take up monitoring of insects and teach local scientists to perform collecting. (1/2)
May 26th presented the activities of BioMongol to an audience of scientists, rangers and students at a biodiversity workshop at Holiday Inn, Ulaanbaatar.
June 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
May 26th presented the activities of BioMongol to an audience of scientists, rangers and students at a biodiversity workshop at Holiday Inn, Ulaanbaatar.