Prof. Dr. Axel Hochkirch

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8 July 2022: Our paper on 30-year changes in Orthoptera assemblages is published in Diversity and Distributions

26 June 2022: Orthoptera excursion in the Wahner Heide

12-13 May 2022: Virtual Workshop Teasel Bee Action Plan

10 May 2022: Our new paper on insect community changes has been published online

13 April 2022: New species Leptophyes axeli named after me!

11-13 April 2022: Advisory Board Meeting Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

05-07 April 2022: Virtual meeting of the IUCN SSC Steering Committee

31-March - 02 April 2022: 3rd European Congress on Orthoptera Conservation

18 March 2022: Visit of the ex situ facilities in Zoo Cologne

17 March 2022: Virtual meeting of the IUCN World Heritage Panel

5 March 2022: Virtual Workshop for German Red List of Orthoptera

11 February 2022: Regional competition of the German context for young scientists (Jugend Forscht)

27-29 January 2022: Rigi Zoo Symposium

21 January 2022: Virtual Workshop European Red List of Insect Taxonomists

19 January 2022: Virtual meeting of the IUCN World Heritage Panel

10, 13 + 15 December 2021: Virtual meeting of the IUCN World Heritage Panel

06-08 December 2021: Advisory Board Meeting Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

03 December 2021: Prionotropis conservation symposium

22-23 November 2021: Virtual Workshop Canary Island Pollinator Action Plan

03 November 2021: British Orthoptera Meeting

28 October 2021: Virtual Advisory Board Meeting project ELSA

01 October 2021: Lecture on pollinator declines in Kaiserslautern

11 September 2021: Meeting of the Advisory Board of the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

01 September 2021: Second Technical Workshop for the European Red List of Taxonomists

17-19 August 2021: Virtual meeting of the IUCN SSC Steering Committee

28 July 2021: Our paper on quantifying species recovery (Green Status of species) is published in Conservation Biology

16 July to 16 August 2021: Field trip to Finland and the Baltic states

26 June 2021: Orthoptera excursion near Cologne ("Wahner Heide")

6 June: Lecture on insect declines in UBZ Leidenhausen (Cologne)

5 June: Our new paper on the population connectivity of Alpine newts is online

2-3 June 2021: FEdA workshop on insect declines

12 May 2021: Technical Workshop for the European Red List of Taxonomists

6 May 2021: Our policy paper on conservation triage is published in Conservation Biology

28 April: Conservation Seminar on our "strategy for the next decade to address data deficiency in neglected biodiversity"

19 April 2021: Virtual meeting of the IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group

14 April 2021: Lecture on insect declines as the SGD Nord (Koblenz)

1 April 2021: Interview on wild bee conservation with DW

18 March 2021: Our paper on mitigating collateral damage in locust control is published in Science

12 March 2021: Our paper on measuring insect population reductions for IUCN Red List assessments is published.

25 Febraury 2021: Virtual meeting of the IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group

12 February 2021: Our paper distribution model for Sphinonotus rubescens is published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

10-12 February 2021: Virtual meeting of the IUCN SSC Steering Committee

29 January 2021: Virtual inception meeting of the European Red List of Taxonomists project

27 January 2021: Virtual meeting of the EU Life BEETLES project advisory board

7-8 December 2020: Virtual meeting of the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund advisory board

11 November 2020: Virtual meeting of the UK Orthopterists

1-4 September 2020: Virtual meeting of the IUCN SSC Steering Committee

13 August 2020: Our paper on changes in the insect fauna in a wetland in Luxembourg is published. 

12 August 2020: My interview on the lack of evidence for insect declines in the US in NZZ

12 August 2020: My interview on the discovery of the aggregation pheromone in locusts in Spektrum

10 August 2020: My interview on the lack of evidence for insect declines in the US in Süddeutsche Zeitung

06 August 2020: Our fieldguide to SE European Orthoptera is now available in French

03 August 2020: Our fieldguide to SE European Orthoptera is now available in Italian

13 July 2020: Our paper on how to address data deficiency in neglected taxa is published online

07 June 2020: Our fieldguide to SE European Orthoptera is now available in Dutch

26 May 2020: Interview on the locust outbreak in Spiegel

20 May 2020: Interview on the locust outbreak in the Greenpeace Magazin

25 April 2020: Interview on global insect declines in Zeit

25 April 2020: Interview on global insect declines in Spiegel

23 April 2020: Interview on global insect declines in Süddeutsche Zeitung