Cut trough shell and Common cockle stand firm in the Big Annual Seashell Survey
Two thousand volunteers counted 82,444 shells, from a total of 66 species during the sixth edition of the Big Annual Seashell Survey last Saturday. Cut trough shell and Common cockle made it into the top five in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. But there were also interesting regional differences. Less than 1% of the checked shells had a 'drill hole' due to predation by snails.
WoRMS Philanthropy grants 2022
During 2022, the VLIZ Philanthropy program was able to issue three grants to support WoRMS editors in making WoRMS more complete. This resulted in about 18.000 edits and additions to WoRMS and its sub-registers.
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2022
As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation Day on March 19th!
3.5 million project aims to solve mysteries about fish migration through main European swimways
A new EU-funded project, STRAITS, will equip all four corners of Europe to track aquatic life in an effort to better understand their biology and ecology, and aid in conservation and management.
LifeWatch collaborates with all-women expedition studying orcas and whales above the Arctic circle
This winter, LifeWatch provided a key contribution to a citizen science initiative studying marine ecosystem change, orca and whale behaviour in northern Norway, 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, during the winter herring run.
LifeWatch citizen scientists got in-depth training on plastic
SeaWatchers closed the year-end of 2022 in an educational way. They took part in the 'plastic' training which zoomed in on the importance of collecting 'marine litter' data, the optimisation of the current protocol and through which methodology they can also provide data at European level.
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the World Register of Marine Species
You might have already heard… The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year! And we do not want to let this birthday pass unnoticed…
WoRMS 15 years: pre-order your WoRMS t-shirt now!
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is releasing a one-of-a-kind t-shirt.