A few years ago, former spots fields in the neighbourhood Schalkwijk in the city of Haarlem were transformed into an organic neighbourhood garden. But the threat remains that it may one day be converted back into sports facilities. That is why Taxon Foundation is carrying out a series of biodiversity inventories with the community. The second preliminary report is here. (PDF in Dutch)

Although the project Backyard Expedition has been finished for two years, we still get regular request for garden inventories. In June, 2024, in collaboration with the local nature club, we organised an expedition in which we inventoried 15 gardens and 3 other bits of urban green.

On June 15th and 16th, 2024, Taxon Foundation and the Zwolle branch of the KNNV (Royal Netherlands Natural History Association) organised an inventory of the cryptobiota of nature education park the Nooterhof. We discovered a surprisingly rich diversity of, among other groups, rove beetles (Staphylinidae) and also a new species of parasitic wasp for the Netherlands!

Invited by the owners, on a rainy day in March, 2024, Taxon Foundation carried out an inventory of an ancient inner city garden in Leiden.

A group of local residents from the Hees neighborhood in Nijmegen formed the Nature Observers Group Hees. To safeguard the natural value of their neighbourhood, they began a large-scale biodiversity inventory. It was an honour for Taxon Foundation to be asked to condense their data into this final report.

Taxon Foundation was founded in 2020 as the non-profit sister organisation of Taxon Expeditions. This annual report (in Dutch) gives an overview of the activities of the foundation over its first year, the finances, as well as an outlook for 2024.

A few years ago, former spots fields in the neighbourhood Schalkwijk in the city of Haarlem were transformed into an organic neighbourhood garden. But the threat remains that it may one day be converted back into sports facilities. That is why Taxon Foundation is carrying out a series of biodiversity inventories with the community. The first preliminary report is here. (PDF in Dutch)

This is the final report (in Dutch) of a private nature reserve in the Eilandspolder in august 2022.

Expedition Backyard is a nationwide project to inventory the biodiversity of gardens and balconies in one street or neighbourhood together with the residents. This is the final report for the expedition in Geldermalsen in April 2022.

Expedition Backyard is a nationwide project to inventory the biodiversity of gardens and balconies in one street or neighbourhood together with the residents. This is the final report for the expedition, in March 2022, in Alkmaar.