This week: Wildlife Film Festival 2018 in Rotterdam
This week is the next edition of the Wildlife Film Festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. From the 24th until the
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Author: Nick Huisman
Illegal logging Bialowieza Forest affects 4000+ hectares of Natura 2000
New publications describe the impact of recent illegal logging in Bialowieza Forest, Poland. Direct and indirect impact on the Natura
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Norway plans to kill half of its wolf population
Update 1. January 2020 – We were just informed that the Ministry of Climate and the Environment of Norway has
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Meeting up with Adventureland Europe
Last week, European Wilderness Society met with Jan Kozlowski from Adventureland Europe in Slovakia. Jan is doing a year-long hike
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Finnish wolves suffering from culling and poaching caused by human fear
The wolf is a native species of Finland, but humans hunted it almost to extinction in the 1970’s. After it
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Romanian conflict and coexistence with large carnivores
Large carnivore populations face pressures in practically every European country nowadays. One of the countries where we still some of
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Learning to track wolves in Germany
International cooperation is crucial when it comes to coexistence with wolves. Germany has been a permanent home for wolves about
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More Wolves, less killed sheep: Big success for livestock protection in Germany
Last month, the German province of Lower Saxony published new data on the wolf population and damages. The results indicate
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It is a wild life in Retezat Wilderness
You can find Retezat Wilderness, partner of the European Wilderness Network, in the oldest National Park of Romania: Retezat National
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International Forest Ecosystem Management – a 20 year anniversary
The University of Applied Sciences in Eberswalde (Germany) is one of our long-term partners to advocate for Europe wildest places.
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Spanish wolf-hunt banned for 2018-2019
Great news has reached us from ASCEL, a Spanish association for the conservation of the Iberian wolf. For the past
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Hiking 7 200 kilometres from Bulgaria, through Europe to western Spain. It sounds like quite a challenge, but Jan Kozlowski
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Why we let wolves kill our sheep
Almost every day you will read about killed sheep, angry farmers, or poached wolves. The growing population of wolves in
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FREE: Watch the exclusive episode: Are wolves more dangerous than cows?
Peter Dettling is a nature photographer, who shows us the highlights of his 3-year long research in the Swiss Calanda region
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Discussing wolf-free zones on ORF TV
European Wilderness Society was invited to the studio of ORF Salzburg Heute for a interview last week. The team and
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Allowing culling increases poaching
More and more countries demand that the European Union changes the protected status of large carnivores. The Flora-Fauna Habitats directive
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Federation Coalition Natura 2000: Romanian Government threatens Protected Areas!
Worrying developments concerning the Romanian governments approach to manage the protected areas have come to our attention. We want to
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Can we put a fence around Wilderness?
The European definition describes Wilderness as an area where nature is free to develop the way she likes. This means
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When wolves and lynxes meet
We all know that dogs and cats do not always seem to get along very well. Dogs are often very
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The digital fight against bark beetles
Many foresters fear the outbreak of bark beetles, as they can have disastrous economic impact. The bark beetles live, as
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