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Author: Jonas Sommer

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Wilderness 

Wilderness revival in Switzerland

November 11, 2020November 12, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 2024 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

Switzerland is naturally predestined for Wilderness. It is home to many of the highest and least accessible mountains in Europe.

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Livestock 

LIFEstockProtect has kicked off

September 30, 2020September 30, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1861 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

LIFEstockProtect, the largest and most ambitious livestock protection project in the German-speaking region of the Alps, is off to a

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Research 

Deforestation in Europe increases

September 17, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 3359 Views 2 Comments 4 min read

Forests cover roughly a third of our planet´s land and provide countless services to humanity. This is especially true in

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Research 

Investing in Wilderness pays off

August 27, 2020August 26, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2204 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

For many, nature conservation is a charity cause. A nice-to-have, but secondary to ‘real’ issues like the economic situation. This

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Wilderness Wilderness Policy 

What Does an Anti-Racist Wilderness Look Like?

August 13, 2020August 14, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2602 Views 7 Comments 11 min read

The issue of racism and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement have spread around the world within the last months. It

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Research WILDForest 

Impressions from a primeval forest

August 12, 2020August 12, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2457 Views 0 Comments 9 min read

Continuing our series about Wilderness research, today Yehor Yatsiuk tells us about his impressions from of the few remaining patches

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Wilderness 

The climate crisis dries out Europe

August 10, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2490 Views 1 Comment 5 min read

Many countries around Europe, especially Central Europe, sound the alarm. Ground water levels and soil moisture are on a historic

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European Wilderness Society 

Iberian Wolf on its way to complete protection

August 7, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Jonas Sommer 2630 Views 1 Comment 10 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’?

August 4, 2020July 30, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2331 Views 0 Comments 6 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

July 24, 2020November 6, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2202 Views 0 Comments 6 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?

July 23, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 3628 Views 2 Comments 11 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

July 22, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2322 Views 0 Comments 2 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

July 21, 2020July 21, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2496 Views 0 Comments 5 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?

July 20, 2020July 20, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2454 Views 0 Comments 8 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

July 17, 2020December 16, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2501 Views 0 Comments 6 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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Sustainable Tourism Wilderness Network News 

Ski resorts and threatened species fight for space in the Apennines

July 10, 2020August 16, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2662 Views 1 Comment 8 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

July 8, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2297 Views 0 Comments 3 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

July 3, 2020December 15, 20223 years ago Jonas Sommer 2655 Views 0 Comments 5 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

July 2, 2020August 16, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2263 Views 0 Comments 4 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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Call for partners: Natura 2000 training, forests, desertification and cities

July 1, 2020August 5, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2453 Views 0 Comments 3 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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