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‘eighty years of promoting biodiversity conservation through taxonomic research, scientific training and international networks’

Dr Paul Bates, Director of the Institute (left), with colleagues from the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand.

Kachin woolly bat (Kerivoula kachinensis) from Myanmar (Burma), one of thirteen new species of Recent mammal described by Institute staff.

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Togther with our colleagues in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand, we were delighted to receive support from the Darwin Initiative for our project Enhancing taxonomic capicity to underpin tropical biodiversity conservation (SE Asia). This project started in April, 2010 and will run until October, 2013.

Welcome to the Harrison Institute

The Harrison Institute was founded in 1930 as a zoological museum, specialising in mammals and birds.

Today it is a UK registered charity (No. 268830), CITES listed (GB010), and actively facilitates biodiversity conservation through:

Conducting taxonomic research on mammals (Recent and fossil)
Training staff and students from UK and foreign institutions in whole organism (alpha) taxonomy
Collaborating with molecular systematists
Developing scientific networks
Disseminating taxonomic information through a range of publications and other media.

The Institute is based at Bowerwood House in south-east England and works with colleagues worldwide on a range of projects, particularly in the Old World Tropics of Asia and Africa.

Website last updated on 6 August, 2010