UN declares decade of ecosystem restoration
On March 1st 2019 the general assembly of the United Nations agreed on a decade of ecosystem restoration for 2021-2030.
Continue readingEuropean Wilderness Policy is impacting the designation and protection of Wilderness.
On March 1st 2019 the general assembly of the United Nations agreed on a decade of ecosystem restoration for 2021-2030.
Continue readingWith the wolf population steadily growing in Europe, wolves are expanding again to new territories. As wolves can easily travel
Continue readingArtificially planted spruce forests in the Czech Republic fall prey to bark beetles, biomass power plants threaten French forests, the destruction of old-growth forests
Continue readingThere is a movement developing, where students skip school to demonstrate for a better climate. Tens of thousands continue to protest every week!
Continue readingIn February 2009 Wilderness advocates gathered in Prague for the Conference on Wilderness and Large Natural Habitat Areas. Their focus was to unite Europe with a common vision and strategy for Wilderness, and thus the European Wilderness Resolution was created.
Continue readingFrom 17th to 18th December 2018 the 9th meeting of the Carpathian Convention Implementation Committee (CCIC) took place in Vienna. The Carpathian Convention is a consortium of the seven Carpatian countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia) to foster the sustainable development and protection of the Carpathian region.
Continue readingGreta Thunberg is a 15 year old that became a symbol for youth activism for skipping school to protest about
Continue readingThe situation in Romania’s virgin forests is not good, and many forests are currently victims of illegal logging. For example
Continue readingSlovensky raj translates directly to mean ‘Slovak Paradise’ in Slovakian. Part of the area is a candidate member of the
Continue readingSupporters of the Wilderness preservation in the Ukraine–initiative group Free Svydovets recently informed the Europarliment in Brussels of the importance of
Continue readingThe current global aim is to expand protected area coverage across the world to cover 17% of land and 10%
Continue readingIUCN have produced a new report which enables protected area management teams to assess how natural areas can benefit people.
Continue readingWorrying developments concerning the Romanian governments approach to manage the protected areas have come to our attention. We want to
Continue readingThe European Wilderness Society recently visited the Svydovets massif in the Ukrainian Carpathians. The area is currently highly disputed because
Continue readingCurrent political developments in the USA are threatening the country’s animal protection laws in multiple ways. Some of the laws
Continue readingRomania is a source of vast natural beauty. It has a variety of unique landscapes; notably some of the largest
Continue readingThe European State of Water 2018 report, published this month, has concluded that only 40% of EU freshwater is of
Continue readingThere are two forms of forest restoration: active forest restoration and passive forest restoration. With active forest restoration, people plant seedlings with the intention to
Continue readingThe Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas report from researchers in Cambridge,
Continue readingUpdate 3.4.2018: After constructive feedback from our followers, we have added more detailed information on the proposed law. Italy has
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