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The Ghost Trucks of Romania

December 11, 2016 Max A.E. Rossberg 6015 Views 0 Comments Logging, Romania

As the FSC Board of Directors is evaluating to disassociate itself from Holzindustrie Schweighofer, another facet of the tricks of the logging

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Holzindustrie Schweighofer on probation: FSC shocks nature conservation world

December 11, 2016 Max A.E. Rossberg 5562 Views 1 Comment Logging, Romania

The months of investigative reporting of illegal logging activities in Romania and the link to Holzindustrie Schweighofer were confirmed in a report

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Wilderness in Pirin is under threat!!!

November 22, 2016 Vlado Vancura 6964 Views 0 Comments Advocacy, Logging

Another wonderful piece of European Wilderness is likely going to disappear if politicians and developers will not make the decision

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Ukrainian Activists stopping the destruction of the Tarutyns’kyj Steppe – momentarily!

November 15, 2016 Max A.E. Rossberg 5968 Views 4 Comments Ukraine, Video

As we reported, the Tarutyns’kyj Steppe is being illegally plowed with the consent of the Ukrainian Ministry of defence. Ukrainian activists

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Border fencing threatens wildlife in Europe

November 9, 2016 Vlado Vancura 6318 Views 1 Comment Europe, Research, Wildlife

A recent research by Linnell JDC, Trouwborst A, Boitani L, Kaczensky P, Huber D, Reljic S, et al. on the

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Bear compensation and co-existence: no relationship to bear population

November 8, 2016 Vlado Vancura 5781 Views 2 Comments Bear, Research, Wildlife

Coexistence of large carnivores and humans is a formidable challenge for conservationists world-wide (Treves & Karanth 2003). Carnivores cause economical

Ukraine Wilderness Policy

Drastic destruction of a unique Wilderness in Ukraine

November 7, 2016 Max A.E. Rossberg 9213 Views 4 Comments Ukraine

The WWF Ukraine is reporting that one of the last remaining steppe areas in the Ukraine is being destroyed by

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European Commission starts to protect European nature and Wilderness!

October 12, 2016 Vlado Vancura 4923 Views 2 Comments Advocacy, Logging, Romania, Ukraine

More and more bad news are coming from Balkan countries. Illegal logging in Romanian part of Carpathian Mountains seems to

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The future of Wilderness in Europe

October 5, 2016 Vlado Vancura 7203 Views 0 Comments

Wilderness is a word that raises various connotations all of over the world. While some people from the nature conservation

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Nature, wildlife, Wilderness – what are they worth?

August 24, 2016 Vlado Vancura 5626 Views 0 Comments Advocacy, Protected areas, USA

This news is in contribution to the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service (part 1)! Resent an independent

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Calling for the Wilderness Convention

August 10, 2016 Vlado Vancura 5776 Views 2 Comments Advocacy, Biodiversity, European Wilderness Society, Wildlife

During the 1st European Wilderness Academy Days in Mittersill, Austria on 3 October 2014, our team arranged a workshop on

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Ecological connectivity between Alps and Apennines

June 7, 2016 Vlado Vancura 6137 Views 1 Comment Biodiversity, Italy

Ecological connectivity between Alps and Apennines (Alps App project) running by Cooperative Sociale Eliante Onlus, Italy is an important cornerstone of Pan

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Logging started in the primeval Białowiesża forest

May 29, 2016 Max A.E. Rossberg 6252 Views 0 Comments Kalkalpen, Logging

Poland has started logging in the ancient Białowieża forest The Bialowiesza includes some of Europe’s last primeval woodland, despite protests

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Outstanding women for Wilderness

May 28, 2016 Max A.E. Rossberg 7188 Views 0 Comments Advocacy, Wilderness

For many decades the nature conservation business has been female dominated, even though the better-known male conservationists dominate the public perception.