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Author: Gintare Tamulyte

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Celebrate the World Wildlife Day with us!

March 3, 2021March 3, 20211 year ago Gintare Tamulyte 1264 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Today, on 3rd of March, together with the CITES Secretariat and United Nations (UN), we celebrate World Wildlife Day! 3rd

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Waste management in Lithuania

February 25, 2021February 25, 20211 year ago Gintare Tamulyte 1182 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

Correct and responsible waste management is a very important part of environment protection policy of any country. While the “Reduce.

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International Wilderness Week presentations now online!

February 16, 2021August 19, 20211 year ago Gintare Tamulyte 1084 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Even after four months since the International Wilderness Week 2020, we are still thinking about the great conference we had.

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Wilderness Network News 

Logging in the Natura 2000 forest of Soomaa National Park

February 3, 2021February 2, 20211 year ago Gintare Tamulyte 1626 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

On the 26th of January 2021, in the heart of Soomaa National Park, locals noticed signs of large-scale forest logging.

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Call for a radical change to stop deforestation once and for all

January 26, 2021January 26, 20211 year ago Gintare Tamulyte 1429 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

New report by WWF reveals that a forest land area totaling 43 million hectares was cut down in just 13

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Wildlife 

Estonia approved killing 50% of its wolves this winter

December 29, 2020January 12, 20212 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 4940 Views 5 Comments 2 min read

Estonia, one of the three Baltic countries, announced that it will allow hunters to kill half of its wolf population

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Wilderness Policy 

A river in New Zealand legally becomes a person

December 17, 2020December 16, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1980 Views 1 Comment 8 min read

In 2017, an exceptional incident occurred. Whanganui River became the first waterway in the world to get legal personhood. The

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Research 

EU countries allowed killing of millions of birds between 2009 and 2017

December 10, 2020December 10, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1528 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Birds are very iconic animals and many people enjoy observing them. Be it scientists trying to understand altruism by observing

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Mountain ecosystems under threat

November 20, 2020November 16, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1464 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

Overshadowed by Covid-19, 2020 was yet another year of heat records. The most northern point of Europe, Svalbard, hit a

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Celebrating Sustainability Day today!

October 28, 2020October 28, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1459 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

In 1970, air and water quality, forest logging and extraction of resources were rising issues in the USA. And so,

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Help stop the destruction of forests for biomass

October 6, 2020October 5, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 2089 Views 1 Comment 3 min read

Currently, EU policy indicates that burning wood is “zero carbon” and “renewable energy”. However, this approach is only true if

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Livestock 

LIFEstockProtect: Giving a hand (or 10) to a sheep farmer in Tyrol

October 1, 2020October 1, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 255 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

For the newly approved project LIFEstockProtect, parts of our team supported by highly motivated volunteers spent almost three weeks in

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Research 

At least 28 species were saved from extinction since 1993

September 18, 2020March 10, 20212 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1748 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Researchers under the lead of Newcastle University and BirdLife International have calculated how many mammal and bird species we would

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Private efforts to protect ancient forests in Lithuania

September 14, 2020September 13, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1522 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

Following public dissatisfaction with increased forest logging in Lithuania, a team of scientists, conservationists, lawyers, artists and nature lovers united

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Giant void emerges in Siberia due to melting permafrost

September 7, 2020September 6, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1644 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

A giant 50 meter (164 foot) deep hole in the ground recently emerged in Yamal peninsula in northwest Russia. It

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Are roads the biggest threat to Wilderness?

September 2, 2020March 10, 20212 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1668 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

Without any doubt, cars, trains and planes make our lives so much easier. A weekend trip to Paris, Christmas shopping

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Wildlife 

New documentary on Akashinga rangers

August 26, 2020August 26, 20202 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1719 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

European Wilderness Society is a proud member of the International Ranger Federation. Together we support rangers in protected areas, and

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Wilderness Network News 

Vote now: 27 European Natura 2000 finalists!

August 24, 2020March 30, 20212 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1497 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

The European Commission has announced the 27 finalists for the 2020 European Natura 2000 Award. Read more about them and

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Research 

Migratory fish populations declined by 76% since 1970

August 20, 2020August 19, 20212 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1831 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

In the last century, humans have altered the Earth’s surface in many ways. Most people are aware of climate change,

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Project Updates 

Sharing experience in sustainable tourism development between the Centralparks and CEETO projects

August 6, 2020August 19, 20212 years ago Gintare Tamulyte 1544 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

The Centralparks project team is always looking forward to sharing knowledge and experience with other projects, adopting successful practices and

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