Taxon Foundation runs community projects with the best biodiversity experts for nature education and conservation. On this page you’ll find a overview of our projects.
A private nature reserve in the Eilandspolder
2022
A miniature private nature reserve in the Eilandspolder in the province of Noord-Holland is, paradoxically, under threat from provincial meadow bird conservation regulations, which demand that all tall vegetation be removed.
Digitization of soil invertebrate data from community science inventories of urban greenspaces in Amsterdam
2023
Taxon Expeditions has organized ‘urban expeditions’ in 13 greenspaces in Amsterdam, the aim of which has been to form teams of both community scientists from the neighborhood and professional biodiversity experts and to carry out high-quality explorations of soil invertebrates of urban greenspaces.
Hoping to catch the elusive German sexton beetle, Nicrophorus germanicus, schoolboy Menno Schilthuizen did a carrion beetle trapping study in Oosterbeek in 1982.