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Author: Elena Leonteva

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Wilderness Bookclub: contemporary female nature writing 

June 1, 2022September 20, 20228 months ago Elena Leonteva 483 Views 0 Comments 9 min read

Nature writing, celebrating and meditating on the non-human environment and our relationship with it, has a long literary history, stretching

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Climate change 

Losing iconic emperor penguins to climate change

May 17, 2022September 20, 20229 months ago Elena Leonteva 502 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

Species extinction risk is accelerating due to anthropogenic climate change, raising the urgency to protect vulnerable species. The emperor penguin

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Rivers for landscape connectivity

April 14, 2022April 27, 202210 months ago Elena Leonteva 565 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Concerned scientists, citizens and governments have been raising the alarm over habitat and biodiversity loss for a while already. Solutions,

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Wildlife 

Does climate change kill gray whales in the Pacific?

April 5, 2022April 27, 202210 months ago Elena Leonteva 681 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

Since the beginning of 2019 more and more gray whales along the west coast of North America from Mexico through

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Wildlife 

World Rewilding Day: Rewild to Supercharge Climate Mitigation

March 20, 2022April 27, 202211 months ago Elena Leonteva 659 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

On March 20, people across the planet celebrate World Rewilding Day. It was launched in 2021 by the Global Rewilding

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Journey into the Carpathians with scribble movies

March 16, 2022April 27, 202211 months ago Elena Leonteva 639 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

The Carpathians are one of the most important European wildlife refuges harbouring some of the last undisturbed ecosystems such as

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Climate change 

Learning to adapt – about butterflies and climate change

March 14, 2022March 15, 202211 months ago Elena Leonteva 690 Views 0 Comments 9 min read

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our century. Along with habitat destruction, they are the main drivers

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Wildlife 

Women in conservation: Wangari Maathai of Kenya

March 8, 2022April 27, 202211 months ago Elena Leonteva 643 Views 0 Comments 9 min read

This International Women’s Day is celebrated under the theme “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”, recognizing the contribution of

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Wilderness Policy 

International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development

March 2, 2022March 2, 202211 months ago Elena Leonteva 703 Views 1 Comment 10 min read

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2022 the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development. Despite the progress in promoting the

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The end of the whaling epoch in Iceland

February 19, 2022February 21, 202212 months ago Elena Leonteva 694 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

February 19 is World Marine Mammal Protection Day (World Whale Day), whose purpose is to draw attention to the problems

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105 years of Russian protected areas

February 7, 2022February 8, 202212 months ago Elena Leonteva 757 Views 0 Comments 14 min read

The Russian system of protected areas has been celebrating 105 years this year. On January the 11th of 1917 the

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Ukraine Wildlife 

Wildlife under threat due to Polish-Belarusian wall construction

January 31, 2022March 29, 20221 year ago Elena Leonteva 844 Views 3 Comments 9 min read

Scientists and experts in the field of wildlife conservation call the European Commission to halt the construction of the wall

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Climate change 

Wilderness book club: Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud

January 27, 2022January 31, 20231 year ago Elena Leonteva 736 Views 0 Comments 11 min read

Marcia Bjornerud’s book ‘Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World’ is a geologist’s love letter to

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New National Park in Ukraine

January 25, 2022March 16, 20221 year ago Elena Leonteva 892 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

At the beginning of 2022 the President of Ukraine signed a decree officially creating the new Pushcha Radzivila National Park

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Scientists and enthusiasts in Russia are tracking down the Russian desman to save it from extinction

January 19, 2022January 25, 20221 year ago Elena Leonteva 794 Views 0 Comments 10 min read

By the end of the 19th century, only two species of desman remained in Europe: the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus)

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