How YOU can promote soil health
Healthy soil combats climate change, promotes biodiversity and supports food production. However, to create food systems that are healthy for
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Signs of movement in the EU against pesticides and fur farming?
Recent news from Brussels on the agricultural front has involved discussions concerning the level of human impact on animals. Practices
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Healthy soil: good for you and for the planet
The other day, we looked at why healthy soil is an important instrument to fight climate change. The focus here
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Post-2020 biodiversity framework: living in better harmony with nature?
Two weeks ago, Macquarie University ran an event called Global Dialogue on Biodiversity Law and Governance. Dr. Michelle Lim, the Senior Lecturer in Environmental
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Wetlands International launches a portal for data on waterbird populations
On 29 June 2021, Wetlands International launched the Waterbird Populations Portal. This is an online interactive platform, which collects current data
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The Wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Way before modern agricultural farming, industrialization and the creature comforts of modern domesticity insulated us from much of the toil
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Get to know more about rangers and join the discussion
Rangers serve under various titles and their work is vast, yet they all work to protect the natural world. Conservation
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Soil as a tool to mitigate climate change
Did you know that the Earth’s soils contain about 2,500 gigatons of carbon—that’s more than three times the amount of carbon in the
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EU Climate Law finally adopted
Last Monday, 28th of June, the European Council adopted its first ever Climate Law. But what are its key dedications
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New EU Agricultural Policy continues funding harmful intensive farming
Last week, on 25 June 2021, representatives from European governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission struck a deal
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Pandemic and single-use plastic
A few days ago, the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) European Topic Centre on Waste and Materials in a Green Economy has published a report on
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Nature keeps the world running. Just give it a think – everything you are provided with on this planet is
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European Wilderness Society at the National Wilderness Skills Institute
The National Wilderness Skills Institute is a modern training platform for those charged with the stewardship of US Wilderness and Wild
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Desertification: a threat closer than you think
Today, 17th of June, is the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. While the term may bring to mind
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Listening to nature
We often first consider the effect we have on nature through what we can see but in many cases we
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Centralparks in the Carpathian Convention 12th Working Group on Biodiversity meeting
Carpathian ecosystems hold some of the very last European wilderness. These areas are famous for their largest remaining primeval forests and grasslands.
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BEECH POWER in the Slovenian Forest Week
In the Kočevsko region of southern Slovenia, untouched nature remains in the form of virgin forests. One of these rare remains
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Connecting youth with nature
It is a great pleasure, motivation and very important activity to work with young Europeans! Moreover bringing them to the
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Test your Carpathian knowledge and win the prize!
Do you have an idea how large are the Carpathians or in which countries lie the Carpathians? If you already
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Global eco-awakening – a rise in environmental concern
The COVID-19 pandemic has injected fuel in environmental awareness, so called the eco-awakening across the globe, new report has revealed. Nature
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