Project Baseline: Belgium recently established a new collaboration with a conservation group at Bos van Aa. The Bos van Aa, near Mechelen, 15km North of Brussels, has been recently designated as a protected area. It is no longer open to the general public. Natuurpunt vzw, Flanders’ largest conservation organization, manages this area and is turning this 115ha area and the surrounding 65ha farmland, into a nature reserve. Natuurpunt approached Project Baseline: Belgium with the request to help explore and catalog the flora and fauna in the ponds at the Bos van Aa. So a new site with in PB: Belgium has been established. The Project goals are:

The general diving agenda in France is to explore and document the seafloor and slope descending from the Collanques, which is a

Ponta Delgada, 01 Jul (Lusa) -. A scientific mission which involved researchers from the universities of the Azores and the Algarve first documented in recent days, many marine ecosystems in the seas of the Azorean archipelago. The mission is called "Project Baseline" , the non-governmental organization (NGO) Global Underwater Explorers, which aims to document marine environments and thus realize its evolution and possible consequences of human activity.

Project Baseline volunteer Blake Carmichael is digging his teeth into a classic "shifting baseline" scenario happening right now at North Bimini Island, Bahamas. At what point do people get engaged and declare an end to, or at least awareness of, environmental degradation? For Blake, that time is now along the shallow reefs of Bimini Island.