Research Missions

Since 2004, year of its constitution, WBA defined specific research programs to increase the knowledge on the biodiversity of particularly interesting areas from the naturalistic point of view. The actual WBA programs are: Re.Mi.M.Ba. (Research Missions in the Mediterranean Basin) and B.R.S.A. (Biological Research in South America) through which animal and vegetal species are collected to be studied and classified.

Hundreds of new species to Sciences have been discovered during the recent naturalistic expeditions of the WBA in South America.

These activities are accompanied by the publication of the results of the researches in a periodic scientific magazine of the WBA "Memoirs on Biodiversity". In this English-language magazine the new species discovered during the WBA expeditions are described from taxonomists of the whole world. Following the next ones

Following the next naturalistic expeditions of the WBA onlus with the relative period:

Mexico 2009 (June-October)

Greece 2009 (September)

Atacama 2009 (Argentina/Chile, October)