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Cambodia: Land of the Unknown

Stéphane De Greef is a man of many talents: In addition to managing casualty data and producing maps with the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor in Siem Reap, Cambodia, he is also a passionate naturalist with a special interest in invertebrates. Today, we’re incredibly pleased –and quite fortunate– to be able to add “Meet Your Neighbours Contributor” to his résumé! Cambodia is place brimming with incredible biodiversity and yet relatively little is known about much of its fauna. Over the [...]

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Cryptic species in our own backyards!

A few weeks ago Dr. Catherine Newman, a biologist at Louisiana State University, published a paper describing a new frog species, previously unknown to science. Many of us have grown accustomed to reading news about new frogs being discovered in remote, primeval forests around the world – frogs just aren’t a very well studied group, so we still have a lot to learn. But this discovery was different. The new frogs described described by Newman live in one of the most urbanized [...]

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National Geographic Endorses Meet Your Neighbours

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: National Geographic Endorses Meet Your Neighbours Paris, France – April 17, 2012 – National Geographic | France has endorsed Meet Your Neighbours, an international nature photography project whose mission is to help people appreciate the wildlife commonly found in their own communities through amazing photography. In the following months, the endorsement will help support the efforts of contributing French photographer Denis Palanque who is photographing species found in the Rhône-Alpes region of France. Palanque, who is a [...]

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© Denis Palanque / meetyourneighbours.net

If you love beautiful images of wildlife then you’ve come to the right place! Here is just a selection of some of the amazing plants and animals that the MYN team has been photographing (in the wild) for you to see. There definitely nothing “common” about any of these species. Visit often as new images will be added on a regular basis.

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The MYN Mission

Meet Your Neighbours is a worldwide photographic initiative dedicated to reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps – and enriching their lives in the process. These creatures and plants are vital to people: they represent the first, and for some, the only contact with wild nature we have.