Expert panel discussion: Will the coronavirus pandemic have a lasting impact on Nature Conservation?
8 Weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic started officially it is taken much more seriously than climate overheating. Are the two
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European Wilderness Society
By the people, for the people – our citizen engagement videos are online
In the last months, we have been active in finding innovative ways to engage local citizens in nature conservation. The
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Register now: Ranger training on Tourism and Waste management in Protected Areas of Ukraine
Apply now for our free-of-charge online training course on Tourism management in Protected Areas with a special focus on waste management for Ukraine
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Understanding COVID-19 impact on tourism in protected areas
As the COVID-19 virus continues to affect our everyday lives, many sectors in society are under large amounts of pressure.
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Never waste a crisis!
The Corona crisis is already predicted to become the biggest economic crisis in history. Even though we are still in
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Webinar: European Wilderness Network – Central and Southern Europe
In this webinar, we continued to explore the Wilderness in Central and Southern Europe. Countries that we visited include Portugal,
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Update: Do good, feel good: help us translate!
UPDATE: Thank you all for answering our request for help: over 40 volunteer translators already offered their skills in over
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Tackling waste pollution in Ukrainian Protected Areas
One of our current projects is “Clean Up Synevyr National Nature Park”. This project is one of the European Outdoor
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Success in protecting a UNESCO World Heritage Beech Forest
Several days ago, Slovakian Ministry of Environment agreed to create one of the largest nature reserves in the country, called
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Join the Wild Easter egg hunt and enjoy a surprise!
This Easter we have hidden wild Easter eggs all over our website, can you find them? When you find an
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Protecting wilderness from home office
Since 16th March, Austria is in shut down. Hence, the European Wilderness Society decided to send all its employees into
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Working remotely as a team in our Interreg projects
Due to the COVID-19 preventive measures put in place, several of our projects had to adapt to the arising difficulties.
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Webinar: European Wilderness Network: Europe’s North
This webinar introduced the European Wilderness Network to our viewers. This was the first in the series of three presentations
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Forest use: Spare where possible, share where beneficial
As advocates of Wilderness – drastically shortened meaning non-human-intervention or self-willed land – we are often confronted with the question
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The sky in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Lungau is blue again!
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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Our economy comes to a halt – so does pollution
The current corona outbreak is a crisis in every sense. It destroys lifes, subsistences and restricts the life of billions.
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Webinar 6 April 15:00 CET European Wilderness Quality Standard
First webinar reached more than 500 people The decision to kick-start our new webinar series with a journey through the
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Photo challenge: Conservation work from home
The situation we face based on COVID-19 is changing rapidly. At the moment it may look like our planet is
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Is there a climate-friendly response to the industry demand for financial aid?
The coronavirus outbreak has a huge economic impact on various sectors, such as the heavy industry, auto manufacturers, tourism industry
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Polesia, the largest floodplain of Europe under urgent threat
Back in 2013, Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian governments agreed to the construction of a long shipping channel, refered to as
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