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Author: Jonas Sommer

European Wilderness Society 

Iberian Wolf on its way to complete protection

07/08/202008/08/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 855 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

Thanks to a special clause in the Habitat Directive, the wolf is not strictly protected in all of Spain as

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Research Wildlife 

What can we learn from the ‘Anthropause’?

04/08/202030/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 692 Views 0 Comments Corona, Research, Wildlife 4 min read

The Covid crisis has turned our world upside down. After months of complete shutdown and subsequent slow re-opening, a second

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Research Wilderness 

The beautiful world of (non-) fungi in a Wilderness area

24/07/202006/11/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 624 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Wilderness, Wilderness Week 3 min read

Today, we are happy to share a story from Iryna Yatsiuk, a mycologist from Eastern Ukraine living is Estonia. A

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Wildlife 

What is the bison´s future in Europe?

23/07/202014/10/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 884 Views 2 Comments Europe, Wildlife 7 min read

European bisons or wisents (Bison bonasus) are some of the most iconic and largest herbivores that ever inhabitated Europe. In

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Training WILDForest 

First forest webinar tomorrow

22/07/202029/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 728 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, forest, forest future, webinar 1 min read

Tomorrow, 23rd July, our first webinar about the role of biodiversity in forests will take place. At 13.15 we start

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Training WILDForest 

Erstes Webinar zum Thema Biodiversität im Wald

21/07/202021/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 943 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, forest, forest future, webinar 1 min read

Übermorgen, am Donnerstag den 23. Juli findet die Auftaktveranstaltung zu unserer Webinarreihe “Multperspektivischer Blick auf die Biodiversität im Wald” statt.

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Sustainable Tourism Wildlife 

Have ski resorts reached their expiration date?

20/07/202020/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 810 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, ski resort, Sustainable development, Sustainable tourism, Wildlife 5 min read

Recently, we reported about the planned enlargement of two ski resorts in the Apennines. The project earned massive criticism because

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Livestock Wildlife 

Our bias about livestock farming

17/07/202016/12/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 773 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, climate change, Livestock protection 4 min read

The Covid-19 outbreak laid many problems of this world bare. On one hand, it showed how much humans pressure wildlife

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Carpathians wilderness deserves our protection!
Sustainable Tourism Wilderness Network News 

Ski resorts and threatened species fight for space in the Apennines

10/07/202007/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 853 Views 1 Comment nature tourism, ski resort, Sustainable tourism, Wilderness 4 min read

The corona crisis has cut the skiing season short in most ski resorts around the world, including the Italian Apennines.

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European Wilderness Society Training 

German webinar series about forests

08/07/202016/09/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 730 Views 0 Comments Education and Training, fire, forest, forest future, large carnivores, webinar, Wilderness education 2 min read

Starting on 23rd July, the European Wilderness Society will host a series of German-speaking webinars shining a light on all

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Livestock Wilderness Policy 

EU agricultural policy ‘CAP’ fails to protect biodiversity

03/07/202001/07/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 884 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Europe 3 min read

Agricultural land covers 40% of the European Union. This means it is the most wide-spread land use in the EU

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European Wilderness Society Research 

Webinar series with REWILD Institute

02/07/202001/07/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 720 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Society, Research 2 min read

Close followers of our website and our onlive events might have already noticed that we conducted three webinars in cooperation

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European Wilderness Society Training Wilderness Policy 

Call for partners: Natura 2000 training, forests, desertification and cities

01/07/202005/08/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 888 Views 0 Comments Beech forest, Education and Training, forest future, Natura 2000, Old growth forests 2 min read

Important update 05.08.2020: As a professional project consortium has not yet formed to develop a project idea for one of

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Wilderness Wilderness Policy 

Wilderness in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030

29/06/202002/12/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 914 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Network, European Wilderness Quality Standard, European Wilderness Society, Wilderness, wilderness stewardship, WILDForests, WILDRiver 5 min read

We already covered the main points of the new ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030‘ and its commitment to free-flowing rivers. But

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#WirtschaftNeuLeben
Videos 

#WirtschaftNeuLeben: Transform our economy

27/06/202026/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 659 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Society 1 min read

The European Wilderness Society participates in a German-speaking social media campaign titled #WirtschaftNeuLeben, which translates to ‘Live economy in a

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European Wilderness Society WILDForest 

Old-growth beech forests need more protection

26/06/202025/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 847 Views 0 Comments Beech, Beech forest, Germany, UNESCO World Heritage 4 min read

Last year, the German action group for forest protection ‘BundesBürgerInitiative WaldSchutz’ declared the 25th June as the ‘Day of Beech

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Research WILDForest 

First ever ‘Science National park’ proposed in Finland

16/06/202018/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 1258 Views 0 Comments National Park, Protected area management, Protected areas, Research 3 min read

A proposal for the world’s first science national park has been submitted to Finland’s Ministry of the Environment with a

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Wilderness Policy Wildlife 

Norway further weakens legal protection of wolves

15/06/202012/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 1589 Views 4 Comments cull, Policy and Legislation, Wolf 3 min read

NOAH, an animal rights organisation from Norway, has informed us that the Norwegian parliament has passed legislation, which allows lethal

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Research Wildlife 

Re-live our webinar on endemic bats of Nepal

11/06/202011/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 841 Views 0 Comments Corona, Wildlife 3 min read

Bats are a fascinating group of animals, but they got a lot of bad publicity in the the context of

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Training 

International Course on Wetland Restoration

11/06/202010/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 862 Views 0 Comments Carpathians, Education and Training, Wetland, Wilderness education 1 min read

Thanks to the successes in fighting Covid-19 across Europe, physical events with international participants are going to happen in a

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