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How Dermophis donaldtrumpi Got Its Name

Posted on January 4, 2019March 2, 2020 by Malu

Image source: envirobuild.com There is an endless number of species on this planet and we are nowhere close to having discovered them all. But scientists and “amateur” specialists are working hard every day to discover more. There is major motivation to do this often difficult work: Besides the fact that you will be the first…

How Scientific Species Names Work

Posted on December 31, 2018June 1, 2020 by Malu

Back in the 1700’s there lived a man called Carl von Linné, aka Carl Linnaeus. He was a biologist among other things and he is the one who standardized binominal nomenclature: Every known species has a name that is international. The science that sorts species into groups by how they are related, is called taxonomy….

About me

My name is Malu. I am a conservation-ecologist currently living in Germany. I’ve always been wild about the outdoors and can spend hours looking at an insect labouring away at its daily challenges, or the courtship behaviour of a terrapin, or … there’s just so much amazing stuff happening out there! I’m really glad you’ve made it onto this page so I can share my joy with you.

Monthly Challenges

We only have about 8 years left to turn this environmental mess of a ship around. So much has to happen politically, but the people also need to change habits and start to appreciate our environment more. So every 1st of the month I post a monthly sustainability challenge for you to try for 30 days and if you like, adopt beyond the month.

The challenges make up the major part in the flow of blog posts here, so they are easy to find. But if you want to get a good overview of the challenges set so far, simply follow the link below.

Overview of Previous Challenges