About us
Jeroen
resides south of Rotterdam in The
Netherlands. Besides his interest in searching for
wild flowers, he is involved in researching mammals,
particularly bats and mice. As a member of the Field Study Group of the
Dutch Mammal Society, he actively
contributes to studying these animals. Additionally, he has
studied marine flora and fauna at the Dutch Stichting Anemoon. He works
for a water company, but his educational
background includes a Master's degree in Cultural Sciences, and
he wrote his Bachelor's thesis on a comparison of
nineteenth-century civil society in the Netherlands and Belgium,
with a focus on the foundation of national botanical
associations.
Rutger
was born in the Netherlands and currently resides in
the Province of Limburg, Belgium, with his wife and
four sons. He runs his own small company specializing
in biodiversity research. As a volunteer administrator on waarnemingen.be and observado.org, he is
responsible for verifying photographs and maintaining the species
lists of European plants. He has also established a website dedicated to plants
in the Belgian region 'Campine' and is CEO of the company ODI biodiversiteitsonderzoek.