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
Training
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
Ukrainian Teacher Wilderness Training
The active summer vacation is coming to an end and schools are ready to start again. The Uzhhorod Department of Education organised the educational conference “Innovative experience for future” and invited European Wilderness Society to take
Lets get Wild School classes visited Nationalpark Kalkalpen Wilderness camps
100 Children visited a Wilderness Camp As the hugely successful “Lets Get Wild” school project is coming to an end after almost three years, 100 children from different Austrian schools attended a multi-day Wilderness camp
European Wilderness Society bietet Leave No Trace Kurse an
„Leave No Trace“ geht auf die Naturschutzbewegung in den USA zurück, die auch für den Wilderness Act verantwortlich ist: 1964 unterzeichnete Präsident Johnson das „Wilderness-Gesetz“, in dem der Natur zumindest in den Schutzgebieten das Recht
European Wilderness Society offers Leave No Trace training seminars
Please also read: Why Leave No Trace is necessary in Wilderness The 7 Principles of Leave No Trace The 2-day Trainer course took a closer look on the 7 principles of Leave No Trace. Plan
Large carnivore exhibition -most wanted!
Our Large carnivore exhibition which was opened for the first time on the 08 of May this year and had a great success, continued its way in Ukraine. Hunter´s Day The first venue of the
Students rap Wilderness songs
As the European Wilderness Society Wilderness Education initiative Lets Get Wild supported by the Austrian Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism is coming to its climax, more and more innovative RAP songs produced by Austrian school children
Now: Wilderness RAP Videos about Austria’s National Parks and Wilderness
The Let’s get wild – an European Wilderness Society school project in cooperation with Austrian National Parks supported by the BMNT, is a project focusing on increasing the understanding of students about the National Park
Experience Wilderness in Russia
The European Wilderness Society aims to identify, designate and steward, but also promote European Wilderness, WILDForests, WILDRivers, WILDCoasts and WILDIslands. Promotion of European Wilderness includes to experience Wilderness. To experience Wilderness, you need to have some
Megaphone built to hear nature
A group of architecture students from the Estonian Academy of Artsunder the guidance of the interior architect Hannes Praks built giant wooden megaphones to permit hikers to listen to the sounds of nature but they will also double as a sitting and resting area, and can be used as a stage for small events.
Cooperate to educate on nature conservation
Although nature conservation organisations all strive for a similar goal, most of them mind their own business. However, performing training sessions and hosting seminars is definitely something where these organisations should and could work together.
Let´s talk about Wilderness in English in Ukraine!
On the 6th of December, 2017 European Wilderness Society conducted English-speaking teens club meeting, hosted by the Window on America Uzhhorod. It was a pleasure to discuss with very motivated, active and smart youth topics
15 schools with 350 students visited the Let’s get Wild workshops already
So far more than 15 school classes and all their teachers have learned all about Wilderness, Austria´s Nationalparks, Sustainable Forestry, Climate Change and the challenges of the return of the carnivores. The European Wilderness Society
Slovakian safety experts receive Wilderness training
The Slovakian company ANTES GM, Ltd. from Trencin approached the European Wilderness Society a few months ago. Their request was if the European Wilderness Society would be able to provide a ‘Nature conservation and Wilderness’
Wilderness Education in Ukraine
European Wilderness Society puts a lot of efforts towards Wilderness education in different European countries for different target audience: adults and kids, professional nature conservationists and simple nature lovers! Up-date 01.12.2017: Recently another National Nature
Lets get Wild School project: First 150 students
In a BMLFUW sponsored project, the European Wilderness Society is visiting many schools across all of Austria and teaching them all about Wilderness, Forests, Climate Change and the return of the large carnivores. Last week