Scientific expeditions

Our Planet Reviewed is a major exploration programme of the natural world and aims to acquire new knowledge in the regions of the planet with the...

CaFoTrop, or Canopée des Forêts Tropicales (Tropical Forest Canopy), organises missions with the Muséum and aims to explore tropical and temperate...

As part of International Polar Year which took place between 2007 and 2008, the CAML (Census of Antarctic Marine Life), a census and study...

A team of scientists from the French Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and the CNRS set off for Spitzberg on the 8^th of July 2010 in...

An expedition in South Africa enabled scientists from the French Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and the South African Institute for Aquatic...

On the initiative of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, the French Research Institute for Development and Pro-Natura International, Santo...

Between April 2009 and June 2010, Mozambique and Madagascar hosted a series of expeditions on sea and land.

From the Bismarck Sea to the foothills of Mount Wilhelm, the Papua New Guinea expedition brought almost 200 researchers, students and volunteers...

Today, the 70,458 species identified in France’s overseas territories are estimated to be just 10% of the species thought to be present.

The aim of the Cafotrop/Energia project was to make an inventory of bugs (Heteroptera) and springtails of the floor, undergrowth and canopy of...

SW Australia 2013 was the third and final mission of the "The survivors of Gondwana" Cafotrop-Muséum project, after the Patagonia mission in Chile...

Pondoland 2012 was the second field mission dedicated to collecting insects under the "The survivors of Gondwana" programme.

"Les rescapés du Gondwana" includes three field missions on three different sites: Chilean Patagonia, South Africa and South West Australia.

The aim of the New Zealand field mission was to collect specimens of Aradidae and Tingidae bugs, as well as Micropterigidae...

The scientific objective of this mission was to draw up a preliminary inventory of Collembola and Heteroptera insects in the Nouragues Nature...

The Cafotrop/Energia/Muséum project has three strands corresponding to the three tropical forest field missions in three chosen sites in Gabon,...

The Cafotrop/Energia/Muséum project has three strands corresponding to the three tropical forest field missions in three chosen sites in Gabon,...