Projects

Illegal hunting of critically endangered Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and endangered Central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and other wildlife species, has adverse effects on the forest ecosystem. Local people around the Dja Biosphere Reserve (DBR) live on an income of less than $1/day. This project is shaped by the need (identified by the local communities) to address the demand for revenue-generating activities ...

SpaceBakery is a collaborative project of a consortium between private stakeholders and research institutes/universities with the overall aim to generate knowledge about food production and food quality in closed fully climate controlled and soil independent habitats (a closed biosphere). Key (bio)engineering and operation targets are 'closure', i.e. air and liquid tight, and 'circularity', i.e. the maximum use and reuse of the products injected ...

Incidence of zoonotic diseases in great apes has great relevance both for the preservation of wild great apes, and the risks are increasing as vulnerability to disease transmission between great apes and humans is heightened through increased human encroachment into ape territory, changing land use patterns, habitat destruction and poaching. Isolated and vulnerable wild great ape populations living in close proximity to humans, and particularly ...

This research agreement between Hasselt University and the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN) concerns the PhD of Jackeline Mwihaki Kariuki. Her dissertation was entitled "Mechanistic understanding of the response to low-dose radiation in plant Differing in radio sensitivity: molecular profiling of radiation-exposed Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa." The project will be carried out within the research group Environmental Biology of ...