Five more representatives from disaster risk reduction management-related organizations delivered separate talks during the afternoon session of the UPLB Museum of Natural History’s webinar “Future-proofing Museums: Protecting the Heritage of Natural History and Cultural Collection from Disasters and Other Risks”
Disaster risk reduction management webinar for museums held
As the National Disaster Resiliency Month drew to a close on 30 July 2021, close to 100 people representing about 60 museums and collections, museum foundations, and disaster-risk reduction coordinating organizations converged together in an online webinar-workshop hosted by the UPLB Museum of Natural History.
MNH junior researcher publishes new genus of sexually-dimorphic roach
Cristian Lucañas, research associate at the UPLB Museum of Natural History, has just recently published in the Journal of Natural History (https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1928317) a new genus of cockroach, Bundoksia, along with a new species under it. The new genus, according to Lucanas, is placed in the Family Blattidae, but due to...