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What Does an Anti-Racist Wilderness Look Like?

August 13, 2020August 14, 20201 year ago Jonas Sommer 1759 Views 7 Comments Wilderness 11 min read

The issue of racism and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement have spread around the world within the last months. It

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The last remaining forest steppe in Hungary receives stricter protection through zoning

August 12, 2020August 10, 20201 year ago Hanna Ollos 1452 Views 0 Comments Hungary, National Park, wilderness stewardship 4 min read

On the 2nd of June, a historic moment took place for nature conservation in Hungary. After several years of campaigning

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World Ranger Day

July 31, 2020February 3, 20211 year ago Gintare Tamulyte 1567 Views 0 Comments celebration, Wilderness Academy, Wilderness education, Wildlife 5 min read

Today, European Wilderness Society, together with the International Ranger Federation and Rangers all over the world celebrates World Ranger Day!

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US Senate passes Great American Outdoors Act

July 6, 2020February 3, 20212 years ago Nick Huisman 1569 Views 0 Comments Policy and Legislation 3 min read

The United States Senate has passed a new act of legislation to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water

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EU agricultural policy ‘CAP’ fails to protect biodiversity

July 3, 2020July 1, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1857 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Europe 5 min read

Agricultural land covers 40% of the European Union. This means it is the most wide-spread land use in the EU

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Call for partners: Natura 2000 training, forests, desertification and cities

July 1, 2020August 5, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1709 Views 0 Comments Beech forest, Education and Training, forest future, Natura 2000, Old growth forests 3 min read

Important update 05.08.2020: As a professional project consortium has not yet formed to develop a project idea for one of

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Wilderness in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030

June 29, 2020March 30, 20212 years ago Jonas Sommer 1848 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Network, European Wilderness Quality Standard, European Wilderness Society, Wilderness, wilderness stewardship, WILDForests, WILDRiver 6 min read

We already covered the main points of the new ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030‘ and its commitment to free-flowing rivers. But

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Dark future for remaining Wilderness

June 23, 2020June 24, 20202 years ago Vlado Vancura 2119 Views 0 Comments Wilderness 5 min read

A study conducted by a team of conservation biologists reveals how little Wilderness is left in the world. It also

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Norway further weakens legal protection of wolves

June 15, 2020June 12, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 2689 Views 4 Comments cull, Policy and Legislation, Wolf 5 min read

NOAH, an animal rights organisation from Norway, has informed us that the Norwegian parliament has passed legislation, which allows lethal

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Austrian politician insults WWF activist

June 10, 2020June 9, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1772 Views 0 Comments Austria, Policy and Legislation 6 min read

On 4th June, WWF Austria organized an official handover of a petition with 22 800 signatures against a hydropower plant in

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Limits to Growth

June 9, 2020June 18, 20202 years ago Vlado Vancura 1729 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

With this iconic title, the Club of Rome published the first report that proved that ever growing population, manufacturing, agricultural

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Science in the crossfire of Romanian logging conflict

May 29, 2020June 28, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1990 Views 1 Comment forest, Logging, Old growth forests, Research, Romania 10 min read

The conflict about illegally logged timber in Romania has already seen various stages of escalation. Now science has also been

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EU commits to support free-flowing rivers

May 27, 2020September 30, 20202 years ago Vlado Vancura 2233 Views 0 Comments bio, Europe, river, WILDRiver 4 min read

The recently released the new EU-wide Biodiversity Strategy revealed the ambition to put Europe’s biodiversity on the path to recovery

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Political attack on Slovene environmental NGOs

May 25, 2020May 22, 20202 years ago Ziva Alif 1943 Views 0 Comments Slovenia 2 min read

The Corona crisis is used in Slovenia as a cover to allow more environmental destruction by the new government that

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Natura 2000 Day: Success story with room to improve

May 21, 2020May 21, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1761 Views 0 Comments Europe, Natura 2000, Wilderness 3 min read

Today is the 28th birthday of the EU Habitat Directive and the LIFE programme. To celebrate this, the European Union

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Ambitious EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030

May 21, 2020May 20, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 2032 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Europe, Policy and Legislation 4 min read

Yesterday, 20th May, the EU published a document titled ‘Communication: EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 – Bringing nature back into

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A victory for Bulgarian Pirin National Park on court

May 12, 2020May 11, 20202 years ago Ziva Alif 1763 Views 0 Comments Policy and Legislation, Protected area management 1 min read

After a 3 years long court saga, the Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court ruled against the plans to allow construction in

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Lessons from Covid-19 for the climate crisis

May 7, 2020April 7, 20212 years ago Jonas Sommer 1843 Views 1 Comment climate change, climate emergency, Corona 5 min read

For many, Covid-19 is the biggest crisis they have ever experienced. A lot has changed within the last few months.What

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Survey: Will the Corona pandemic change nature conservation?

May 5, 2020May 13, 20202 years ago Jonas Sommer 1893 Views 0 Comments climate emergency, conservation, Corona 1 min read

On 12th May 2020, we had an expert panel discussion about the impact of the Corona Pandemic on nature conservation

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A matter of perspective

April 30, 2020April 30, 20202 years ago Anni Henning 1933 Views 0 Comments Corona 6 min read

It has been eight weeks since the corona crisis has really hit Europe. On 9th March, Italy entered a national