Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has announced that it will collaborate with Naturalis Biodiversity Center to facilitate research on biodiversity.
As part of the initiative, the retailer will help a student pursue a PhD on the subject for the next five years in the Leiden-based research centre.
In February of this year, biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra will start his research on biodiversity, which is a subject of focus for the retailer as well as Naturalis.
'Interested In Biomonitoring'
Research and education director at Naturalis, Maaike van de Kamp-Romijn, said, "Albert Heijn is very interested in biomonitoring. [Albert Heijn] works with regular growers and farmers and is therefore very close to nature in the Netherlands and to the related environment. That way, we can make a difference together."
Most recently, Naturalis inaugurated a new building in Leiden, which houses a museum, and a collection and research centre under one roof.
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