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The Mammal Research Institute PAS employs people with an extraordinary sense of observation! Michał Walesiak discovered a species of beetle that is new to Polish fauna – Atheta knabli – in Białowieża Primeval Forest. An article describing this discovery has just been...

Mammal Research, an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published on behalf of the Mammal Research Institute by Springer has just reached a highest Impact Factor in its history: 2.026! Congratulations to all editors, authors and reviewers!

The series “Handbook of the Mammals of Europe” was just updated with a chapter on wild boar, prepared in cooperation with Tomasz Podgórski from MRI PAS. Similarly like in the case of previous chapters prepared by researchers from MRI PAS (on European bison, bats and...

A chapter devoted to moose by a team of researchers from MRI PAS (M. Niedziałkowska, M. Kołodziej-Sobocińska, T. Borowik) and from Sweden and Norway was published in the series “Handbook of the Mammals of Europe”. The chapter is a comprehensive summary of state-of-art...

WWF Poland has just published a second, improved, supplemented and expanded edition of the book „The Afterlife of a Tree”. The first edition from 2004 was a milestone in education about the ecological processes in natural forests connected with the presence of dead...

We invite you to watch a documentary about attempts to mitigate conflicts between agriculture and wildlife in Africa, which was produced as part of a project implemented by IBS PAN together with the Southern Tanzania Elephant Program in Tanzania. The aim of the...