About us
Jeroen
lives south of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. He is not only
interested in searching wild flowers but also in research on
mammals (mainly bats and mice). He is a member of the Field Study Group of the
Dutch Mammal Society and also studied marine
flora and fauna at the Dutch Stichting Anemoon. He works
for a water company and has a Master's degree in Cultural
Sciences. Jeroen wrote his Bachelor's thesis on a
comparison of nineteenth-century civil society in the
Netherlands and Belgium by focusing on the foundation of
national botanical associations.
Rutger
was born in the Netherlands and nowadays lives with his wife and
4 sons in the Province of Limburg, Belgium. He has his own small
company for biodiversity research. As a volunteer administrator
on waarnemingen.be
and observado.org
he is responsible for checking photographs and maintaining the
species-lists of European plants. He has a website on plants in the
Belgian region 'Campine' and is CEO of the company ODI biodiversiteitsonderzoek.