One of our new environmental youth education projects is UzhGreenFest, focusing on a Youth Green Festival in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. We are implementing this project jointly with partners, both youth and professionals. Project progress The project
Training
An inspiring young woman living a ZeroWaste Lifestyle
Our cooperation with Valeriia ‘Lera’ Popovych from Ukraine started when she applied for the Youth Green Conference-2019. She was successful and joint our event in Austria! Upon the return to Uzhhorod, Lera joint the Youth Wilderness
Get ready for the 5th European Ranger Congress!
The European Ranger Federation is inviting you to join the 5th European Ranger Congress. It will take place in Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany between the 11th and 16th of May 2020. The theme of
UzhGreenFest goes ahead!
Experienced gained during the Youth Green Conference motivated Ukrainian youngsters for action. Therefore, upon their return back home they made the decision to become agents of changes. Youngsters created the Ukrainian Youth Wilderness Group and
Youth is calling for climate action!
Our latest Erasmus project: Youth Green Conference 2019 finalized last October, but follow-up activities are still continuing. One of them is an article, written by the Ukrainian participant: Natalia Savko. This article was translated into
Successful All-Senses Workshop Whispering Of The Trees
The latest Citizen Engagement Activity “Whispering of the trees” was successful, even in bad weather conditions. With support from the Interreg Volunteer Youth the two-days event open for everybody took place in Eberswalde. On the
Launching Vlado Vancura Wilderness Training Centre
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey As Edward Abbey, the famous American author and environmentalist noted, Wilderness needs good stewards. The European Wilderness Society is launching in 2020
Italy first country to make climate change compulsory topic in schools
The Italian Minister of Education announced that the topic of climate change will become compulsory in Italian schools. Italy is thereby the first country in the world. Starting next academic year, all state schools will
Comeback of Wilderness Education week in Ukraine
There is a high demand for informal ecological education in Ukraine. Therefore, as a response to this demand, European Wilderness Society again conducted a Wilderness Education week in Uzhhorod. This time our educational week consisted
Hear the trees of Grumsin whisper
Today and tomorrow, the 5th and 6th November, our next Citizens Engagement Activity, in cooperation with Interreg Volunteer Youth, will take place in the Grumsin forest, Germany. During the event, we will take students of
25th Edition of the Danilo Re Memorial
Dedicated to the Italian park ranger Danilo Re, the Danilo Re Memorial is a sports competition for rangers from National Parks in the Alps. As a prize the teams can win the Danilo Re trophy.
Win €10 000 to save the forest
The Evergreen Innovation Camp is a follow-up project of the famous Schweighofer Prize, taking place in the BOKU in Vienna. It supports innovations in the forest and wood industry as well as other initiatives, which
Let’s get wild at the 5th European Ranger Congress
The European Wilderness Society supports ranger at the 5th European Ranger Congress in Bavaria.
Youth Green Conference starts soon!
Early October European Wilderness Society will conduct Austrian-Ukrainian Youth Green Conference 2019. The conference is now under active preparation jointly with our Ukrainian partner – Agency for Sustainable Development of the Carpathian Region “FORZA”. The
Wilderness Expert Exchange continues
European Wilderness Society understands an importance of the capacity-building as well as experience exchange between Wilderness Experts and Advocates. Especially it is true for experts from different countries of the European Wilderness Network. Therefore right
Wilderness Internship in the Bitterroot Wilderness, USA
What does a Wilderness Ranger do? Our colleague Verena Gruber is currently a Wilderness Ranger Intern with the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Montana and Idaho, USA. During her first
Save the Date for the U.S. Wilderness Ranger Academy 2019!
The U.S. Forest Service, in cooperation with the European Wilderness Society, is able to host several European Rangers from the European Wilderness Network at their next year’s Wilderness Ranger Academy! The multi-day and hands-on event
Let’s get Wild school project in ORF TV series Newton
One of the educational projects from the European Wilderness Society is Let’s get Wild! This month we had another highlight in the project: the educational TV series ‘Newton’ from ORF joined our school project. In the
Educating future Wilderness advocates
Update from 16th of October: Today education of Wilderness advocates continued at Uzhhorod specialized school 6 “Leader”. It was exciting and teenagers learnt more about Human-Wilderness coexistence. European Wilderness Society´s exhibition will be opened for
Wilderness education at Ukrainian schools
On 4th of September our Wild 5 started its journey among Uzhhorod educational institutions and travelled to the first School № 16.Life-size wooden Brown bear, Wolf, Lynx and Golden Jackal accompanied by informative roll-ups of