Vlado Vancura, Author at European Wilderness Society

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What is Wilderness character?

05/02/202006/11/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1279 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Quality Standard, Wilderness 3 min read

What characterizes Wilderness? For those who care passionately about Wilderness, it seems that this question is an important part of

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The history of European forest exploitation

03/02/202002/04/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1450 Views 0 Comments Forest loss 3 min read

European forests dramatically suffered not only in the last decades but ever since the development of agriculture and permanent settlement

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Wilderness is a window to the past

31/01/202030/01/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1404 Views 0 Comments slovakia, Wilderness 4 min read

When I was young, my great-grandfather, a forester, told me that this Wild Valley used to be even more wild

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Wilderness is buffer

30/01/202002/04/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1312 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Wilderness 2 min read

In the last years more and more researchers are focusing on studying Wilderness. Their conclusion is that despite the many

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The future of the fossil fuel industry

27/01/202024/02/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1347 Views 0 Comments climate emergency 2 min read

The fossil fuel industry must be shut downs, is the title of the Acid News newsletter editorial, published on December

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Make Europe coal free by 2030

21/01/202006/03/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1275 Views 0 Comments climate change, pollution 2 min read

Several national governments have announced their intention to phase out use of coal. A total of 72.8 gigawatts of coal

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Challenges to protect Slovak Paradise

20/01/202002/04/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1398 Views 0 Comments forests, National Park, slovakia, Wilderness 4 min read

The European Wilderness Society and Slovak Paradise National Park have a successful partnership for several years. Slovak paradise proved that

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Fantastic achievements, but are we staying on the right track?

10/01/202024/02/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1347 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Protected areas 4 min read

According recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) statistic, close to 15% of the Earth’s land and 7% of

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Slovakian Wilderness under threat

09/01/202002/04/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1453 Views 0 Comments forest, Logging, Protected areas, slovakia, Wilderness 2 min read

Slovakia has a great potential to become an important partner in the quest to protect European Wilderness. There are some

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Challenge to protect European forests

18/12/201918/12/20191 year ago Vlado Vancura 1700 Views 0 Comments Europe, Forest loss 4 min read

European forests are under extreme pressure. We can read almost daily the stories that somewhere in Europe forests are dying, logged and disappearing. The initial event leading

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Majella Wilderness hosts ancient black pine

10/12/201910/12/20191 year ago Vlado Vancura 1569 Views 0 Comments Majella Wilderness, Pine 3 min read

An extraordinary black pine of more than 900-year old is growing in Majella Wilderness, embedded in Majella National Park in

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Wild Photo Contest Trip

26/08/201922/04/20202 years ago Vlado Vancura 1790 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Society 1 min read

The winner of the Let’s Get Wild Photo Contest in the wildlife category Mr. Mauro Raunich, from Slovenia enjoyed two

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Ancient forest Punios silas in Lithuania under threat

16/08/201918/04/20202 years ago Vlado Vancura 2418 Views 0 Comments forest 2 min read

Forest in Europe is permanently attacked. The excuses for heavily logging broadleaf and conifer forests are not only natural disturbances

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Wilderness Audit in Gorgany Nature Reserve, Ukraine

30/07/201922/07/20192 years ago Vlado Vancura 1915 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Network, Ukraine, Wilderness, wilderness audit 1 min read

In the past weeks the European Wilderness Auditors spent several days in Gorgany Wilderness, embeded in the Gorgany Mountains Massif. The area is located

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Enlargement of the Wilderness in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve

29/07/201928/11/20192 years ago Vlado Vancura 1810 Views 0 Comments Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Ukraine, Wilderness 3 min read

The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve in Ukraine is already hosting several Wilderness areas included in the European Wilderness Network. To achieve

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Wilderness And Wildness Are Not Synonyms

25/07/201919/04/20202 years ago Vlado Vancura 2293 Views 0 Comments 0 min read

For many non-native English speakers, Wilderness and Wildness sound similar and sometimes even identical. However, that’s a wrong impression. Wilderness