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Author: Max A.E. Rossberg

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European PROJECT Developer

September 14, 2021September 20, 20222 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 379 Views 0 Comments 0 min read

We are looking for a project developer for our many European projects. As full-time employee, you will work a 4-day work week and with high self-responsibility in an equal opportunity work environment of a passionate, social, international, creative, young and

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Wildlife 

Wild Rheas in Northern Germany

November 4, 2020November 2, 20202 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2224 Views 1 Comment 5 min read

Rheas prefer warm and hot weather and inhabit open areas such as savannas, grasslands and valleys in South America. The

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Webinar 9th July 15:00 CET Tourism in Wilderness

July 7, 2020November 6, 20203 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2371 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

Wilderness and protected areas are facing challenges with visitors and tourism, as more and more people are interested in seeing

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Shape the EU Green Deal on Restoring Biodiversity NOW!

June 2, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2357 Views 1 Comment 0 min read

The European Green Deal call will mobilise research and innovation to foster a just and sustainable societal transition aiming at ‘leaving nobody behind’. Projects

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1 Million visitors

April 29, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2470 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

Dear friends and wilderness advocates, together we broke the threshold of 1 million visitors to our website https://wilderness-society.org. If we

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Wilderness Policy 

The sky in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Lungau is blue again!

April 7, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2883 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

The UNESCO Biosphere Lungau lies in the crossways of many airlines routes from the East to Southern Europe and from Central Europe to the Arabic world. Sometimes up to 10 airplanes are leaving their contrails in the sky above the Tauern mountain range. Not anymore!

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2019: A Wild Year!

March 17, 2020April 23, 20203 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3606 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

This year the European Wilderness Society has been very successful. In the anniversary year of Wilderness, we have grown in

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New Webinar Series during Corona lockdown

March 16, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3207 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

The spread of the coronavirus disease is clearly a public health emergency, affecting many businesses all across the world. Apart

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Wilderness Policy 

Lack of urgency characterizes climate change conference

January 8, 2020November 9, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2914 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

“Utterly inadequate,” are the words chosen by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe present efforts to reach emission

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Wildlife 

180 hunters kill one Wolf pack in Norway

January 3, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 10983 Views 36 Comments 4 min read

Viewer discretion recommended: Some of the images in this article might be disturbing for younger audiences. On New Years Eve

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Happy New Year: the challenges of 2020

January 1, 2020October 20, 20223 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2822 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

A tremendous year is coming to an end. 55 years ago, the United States passed the Wilderness Act, 10 years

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Livestock 

Finding solutions for future of alpine farming in Tschengls

December 18, 2019August 19, 20213 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2982 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

The future of the pasture farming is an uncertain one. During the citizen engagement activity we discussed it on Saturday in Tschengls.

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Discussing future of alpine farming in Tschengls, South Tyrol

December 12, 2019April 13, 20203 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3072 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

Since the 1960s, farming on alpine pastures is changing rapidly. With the return of large predators, such as the wolf,

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Wilderness Policy 

EU Parliament declares climate emergency

November 29, 2019November 28, 20193 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3101 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

On the 28th of November, the European Parliament officially declared the climate emergency in Europe. With 429 votes for and

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European Wilderness Network: The wildest places in Europe!

November 20, 2019November 25, 20193 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 5752 Views 1 Comment 6 min read

In the past years, more than 41 Wilderness Areas from 17 countries joined the European Wilderness Network. The European Wilderness

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Wilderness fascinates 1 million people

November 18, 2019November 20, 20193 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3018 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

Back in 2014 we started with a small website not knowing if any European let alone wilderness advocates from anywhere

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Oil companies under pressure

November 15, 2019May 11, 20203 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3172 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

To keep the world’s average temperature below two degrees, the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016. To achieve this goal,

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Wilderness 

How the fall of East Germany improved the world’s biodiversity

November 9, 2019November 6, 20203 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3126 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Today, 30 years ago, the Berlin Wall that separated the capital city in Western and Eastern Germany fell. Just before

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Wildlife 

Stones are an important home for our wildlife

November 4, 2019November 1, 20193 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3667 Views 2 Comments 6 min read

The Canary Islands became very famous for their stone beaches like Playa Jardin near Puerto Santa Cruz and El Beril on

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Training 

Win €10 000 to save the forest

October 31, 2019November 6, 20203 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3133 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

The Evergreen Innovation Camp is a follow-up project of the famous Schweighofer Prize, taking place in the BOKU in Vienna.

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