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With holiday season accelerating and countries discouraging international travel, many people choose to explore their local areas. That often means
Continue readingWith holiday season accelerating and countries discouraging international travel, many people choose to explore their local areas. That often means
Continue readingIn this series of postings, we apresent the colourful system of protected areas in Lithuania. This week’s topic are the
Continue readingLithuania is a small, but beautiful and rich Baltic country just above Poland. By ‘rich’ I do not mean economically
Continue readingCanada is moving forward with its expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which crosses both Alberta and British Columbia for
Continue reading“Utterly inadequate,” are the words chosen by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe present efforts to reach emission
Continue readingOn December 11th, the European Commission released its plan to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050 –
Continue readingSince 1977, the Wild Foundation has been organizing a World Wilderness Congress for the purpose of providing a public forum
Continue readingGermanwatch, together with the NewClimate Institute and Climate Network International, published their 15th Climate Risk Index 2020 (CRI). They are
Continue readingExperts estimate that Romania is home to about 6 000 brown bears (Ursus arctos). And the Carpathians, specifically Romania, have
Continue readingA study from Chazdon and Brancalion in 2019 revealed that newly planted trees could absorb most of the human made
Continue readingThe latest Citizen Engagement Activity “Whispering of the trees” was successful, even in bad weather conditions. With support from the
Continue readingIt is been eight years now, since five German beech forests were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To
Continue readingOn the 28th of October 2019 Hohe Tauern National Park celebrated the awarding of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation
Continue readingToday and tomorrow, the 5th and 6th November, our next Citizens Engagement Activity, in cooperation with Interreg Volunteer Youth, will
Continue readingDedicated to the Italian park ranger Danilo Re, the Danilo Re Memorial is a sports competition for rangers from National
Continue readingIn May 2019, the seventh session of the Interngovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) took place at
Continue readingThere is always a price to pay and ‘nothing worth fighting for comes easy’, least of all the fight to
Continue readingIn the end of September 2019 the German National Forest Summit took place in Berlin. In that summit, different stakeholders
Continue readingA new study has discovered vast areas which are potentially suitable for habitation by European bears. The European brown bear
Continue readingYesterday was a great and successful day for our latest Citizens Engagement Activity. Under the umbrella of the Interreg Volunteer
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