My friends, welcome to BCL -the Biodiversity Conservation Lab! 

I am Kiki, a biologist, who has decided (since childhood I admit it…) that she has to do something to stop the rapid anthropogenic destruction of nature. We are all responsible for it, right? Well, conservation biology is what I chose to do in my life for this aim. A fascinating multidisciplinary science full of challenges. Hard but fantastic! 

I founded BCL in 2017, in the Department of Biological Applications & Technology of the University of Ioannina, where I have moved the same year (after a fluctuating academic life since 2004…). The Lab stands in the heart of Pindus mountain range, surrounded by wonderful wild mountains and thriving wildlife. Well, BCL is just a small computer room, but it is also the headquarters of the real free lab out there: nature. We set questions, search, analyze, conclude, suggest, teach and try to maximize the impact of scientific outputs to the broad society. 

You can find here the mission of our Lab, understand what we do as research, and get to know Lab people, including myself.  You can explore our projects, our research outputs, and educational activities since BCL establishment. We wish to make biodiversity part of the value system of our society and we have started to promote a citizen-science culture and make relevant knowledge accessible to all in the science for society blog, where you will find popular science articles, videos, policy briefs, even science for kids. At least we try so…

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