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How YOU can promote soil health

July 30, 2021July 26, 20216 months ago Julia Ramsauer 464 Views 0 Comments agricultural, soil health 3 min read

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?

July 23, 2021July 19, 20216 months ago Timothy Sung 509 Views 0 Comments Bees, european union 4 min read

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

July 20, 2021August 19, 20216 months ago Julia Ramsauer 434 Views 0 Comments agriculture, climate change, soil health 3 min read

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?

July 19, 2021July 15, 20216 months ago Nella Sergejeva 419 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, envrionment 4 min read

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

July 15, 2021July 8, 20216 months ago Hanna Ollos 516 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, bird, Wetland, Wildlife 4 min read

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

July 12, 2021July 1, 20216 months ago Fergus Hill 543 Views 0 Comments 11 min read

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

July 8, 2021July 5, 20216 months ago Hanna Ollos 494 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, ranger, Wildlife 4 min read

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

July 7, 2021July 1, 20217 months ago Julia Ramsauer 506 Views 1 Comment climate change, ecological footprint, soil health 4 min read

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

July 5, 2021August 16, 20217 months ago Nella Sergejeva 466 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate law, european union 2 min read

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

July 2, 2021June 30, 20217 months ago Lia Schlippe 496 Views 0 Comments agriculture, CAP, Europe, Greenwashing, Policy 3 min read

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

June 28, 2021August 19, 20217 months ago Nella Sergejeva 483 Views 0 Comments pandemic, plastics, pollution 4 min read

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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Let’s talk ecosystem services!

June 24, 2021June 24, 20217 months ago Nella Sergejeva 544 Views 0 Comments ecosystem, Ecosystem services, green economy, natural capital, nature 4 min read

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

June 21, 2021June 15, 20217 months ago Hanna Ollos 492 Views 0 Comments Wilderness, Wilderness Academy, Wilderness education, wilderness stewardship, Wilderness Week 3 min read

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

June 17, 2021June 15, 20217 months ago Julia Ramsauer 683 Views 2 Comments 5 min read

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

June 16, 2021July 12, 20217 months ago Fergus Hill 510 Views 1 Comment Biodiversity, Wildlife 7 min read

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

June 14, 2021August 19, 20217 months ago Hanna Ollos 524 Views 0 Comments Carpathian Convention, Carpathians, Centralparks 3 min read

Carpathian ecosystems hold some of the very last European wilderness. These areas are famous for their largest remaining primeval forests and grasslands.