Eventually, after the covid period, the Royal Belgian Zoological Society could organize the Benelux Congress of Zoology face-to-face in Kortrijk, the 22nd and 23rd of September 2022. We had very diverse talks about many animal species, such the one of our post-doc AnthonyMathiron on the immediate and delayed effects of an insecticide on the mangrove rivulus, the one of our invited speaker Dario Valenzano on aging in the Turquoise killifish, or the one of Lisa VanLinden who was the winner of the Kets prize for the best Master thesis. We also had the opportunity to award the first Pairi Daiza Foundation Grant to support a young researcher in conservation biology using zoological gardens. This award went to Rosaria Santoro, PhD student in conservation biology from the Manchester Metropolitan University. Next year, the conference will be held in Leiden, the Netherlands.
