Wilderness Audit and roadless areas
Experience from conducting European Wilderness Audits confirms that roads are one of the main barriers to designate high quality Wilderness.
Continue readingExperience from conducting European Wilderness Audits confirms that roads are one of the main barriers to designate high quality Wilderness.
Continue readingEurope’s only Wilderness Conference will be held May 27-29, 2019. We are proud to announce our exceptional speakers!
Continue readingThe United States was the first country to officially designate land as “Wilderness” through the Wilderness Act of 1964. This
Continue readingToday we are releasing two new Wilderness Briefs, for Thayatal WILDForest and Thaya WILDRiver. Both are Wilderness areas in Nationalpark
Continue readingEverywhere on our planet, forests are facing the same problem: climate change and human impact. We like to use wood
Continue readingWe have collected some of the most often posed questions we receive and hope to provide some of the answers.
Continue readingThe European Wilderness Quality Standard as well as the IUCN protected areas categories, particularly category Ia and Ib, designate and
Continue readingIn 2013 the Wilderness Working Group (WWG) published an official European Wilderness definition. This definition builds on the IUCN definition
Continue readingHow do we define Wilderness in an international context? Even though the US Wilderness Act was the beginning of a
Continue readingWe often receive inquiries from especially students, but also donors: How does a normal workweek in a nature conservation non-profit
Continue readingThe National Parks Austria recently published a position paper for Wilderness and non-intervention management in the Austrian National Parks. The
Continue readingThe director of the Low Tatras National Park and the Chairman of the European Wilderness Society recently signed a Memorandum
Continue readingA standardised Wilderness quality is an important precondition to support the European Wilderness Network. It means that we use the same system to
Continue readingA paradox is a statement that seems logically incorrect or self-contradictory. This is also the situation in the case of
Continue readingTyler Lee, student of the master program in Environmental Management and Wilderness ranger in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho,
Continue readingWe just had a great and very productive meeting with the WILD Foundation in Boulder, Co. Vance Martin, President, and
Continue readingWilderness offers opportunities to research the unique attributes of nature and natural processes. Wilderness research and monitoring allows park managers
Continue readingMountain Geographer Verena Gruber, a graduate mountain geographer from the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, already cooperated with the European
Continue readingThe number of Marine Protected Areas significantly increased in the last years. The experience shows that very general and globally
Continue readingThe European Wilderness Society had a meeting with the dean of the Biology Faculty of Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine. The aim
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