Understanding Favourable Conservation Status
Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds (this is the codified version
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Research
Wilderness Research and Science
Inventory of fauna and flora in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria
From 6th to 9th of august 2015 the 9th „Day of Biodiversity“ took place in the Untersulzbachtal in the Hohe Tauern
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Good forest means dead wood
There is a study by German researchers, led by people linked to the Bavarian Forest National Park, published in order to
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ALPARC recruits a chief
ALPARC recruits a chief for international Projects We are looking for a highly motivated person to be integrated in our
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Pyrenana Wild Goat: An Example for de-extinction as a way forward?
De-extinction means an artificial restoration of an extinct species! Although it may seems a laudable goal from an environmental and
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Your opinion counts: Jurassic Park helps rewilding?
Your opinion counts and our team is really interested in hearing comments on the article of Woolly mammoth. Please also
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Habitats and species in the EU
The European Environmental Agency published the conservation status of habitat types and species under the Article 17, Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC
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Efficient and sustainable ecological restoration
According to the 3rd Global Biodiversity Outlook report published in 2010 mentioned the opportunity to restore Wilderness (aka rewilding) 100,000
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Precision Conservation
If we treat agricultural pollution with a scalpel instead of a hatchet, we might have a fighting chance of cutting
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Humans and carnivores can share the same landscape
Friend of Wilderness Mrs. Jasna Jeremić sent us an interesting news on the subject: humans, large predators and landscape. The
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Revisiting Leopold report
The Revisiting Leopold report has recently been featured in the IUCN’s Parks Journal. A whole magazine dedicated to launch a
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WWF Living Planet Report 2014 – protected areas act as Noahs Arc
The 2014 ‚Living Planet Report’ study by WWF reveals a most concerning result: Within the past 40 years more than
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Is feeding bears a solution or a curse for human conflict situations?
The traditional wisdom is “A fed bear is a dead bear”. We tend to follow the traditional research by relocating
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Behaviour of Solitary Adult Scandinavian Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) when Approached by Humans on Foot
Successful management has brought the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) back from the brink of extinction, but as the
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Call for hosting the European Wilderness Academy Days 2015
This year we will all meet in the National Park Hohe Tauern in Mittersill, Austria and follow up on the
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Extreme melting of glaciers in the National Park Hohe Tauern
Ever since 1988 the hydrographical service of Austria has been monitoring the melting of glaciers and the run-off of the
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Connecting protected areas: the P2R Green Corridor Project
 The Flora and Fauna need green corridors to overcome human barriers. There are  some successful examples of green corridor projects
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Are wild animals our pets?
Just today, a series of interviews was published in an Austrian newspaper concerning what people thought of the return of
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Interactive map of threatened species
We found this interactive global biodiversity map which shows the hotspots of diversity and threats. What is most surprising that
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European Wilderness Society supports mapping project to reveal Europe’s Wilderness
The University of Leeds has unveiled the first comprehensive survey of Europe’s remaining Wilderness areas. Today, just 1-2% of the
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