Biodiversity Archives

Black friday for Sweden’s wolf population

Two Swedish counties allowed hunting of wolf during this winter, which will decrease the population of the species by 10%.

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Soomaa: Largest bogland of EU endangered

Soomaa National Park was created in Estonia in 1993 to protect large raised bogs, flood plain grasslands, paludified forests and

Wildlife

Killing more predators does not save livestock

According to a recent study by Washington State University, the killing of predators actually has the opposite effect, it increases the

European Wilderness Society Wildlife

The Silencing of European Wilderness

The large herbivores and predators of the continent form an integral part of Wilderness areas in Europe and are considered

Livestock Videos

Wolves to be killed by hunters in Spain

In March of this year, Lobo Marley, an association “Citizens for Wolf and the Rural World”, participated anonymously in the

Livestock

Support the protection of wolf in Sweden

The attention of our Society was called to the proposal to issue hunting licenses of wolf killing in Sweden. The

Wildlife

Rangers, wildlife and poachers

Interesting and never ending discussion on the subject of ranger & wildlife & poacher goes on and on in different

European Wilderness Society Videos

Europe’s Biodiversity – Isn’t it beautiful?

May 22 is designated as the International Day for Biological Diversity. Let’s celebrate this day with a few beautiful images

Logging started in the primeval Białowieża forest

Wilderness

The way to species extinction

This post promotes a short film, which describes the routes which lead to the unfortunate extinction of Siamese rosewood

Wildlife

Working to save the raptors

Save the raptors is a project run in Bulgaria in order to save and increase the number of imperial eagle and saker falcon

Research

Garbage in the Ocean – Littering marine Wilderness

A European Union co-funded research found widespread evidences of garbage in the ocean around Europe. Every sampling location has already been trashed before discovered!

Wilderness Policy

Protection against all odds

The Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014 was given to a person who made a lot for protecting Wilderness in Europe for future generations

Wilderness Policy

Biodiversity offsetting: Pricing nature or protect it

Price tagging nature will mean opening up Wilderness areas for unsustainable development, mining and extraction.

Wilderness Policy

Why Wilderness lovers should care about climate report

he IPCC reports that our public lands are changing. These changes are occurring at an alarmingly fast rate, putting ecosystems in many different regions at risk of extinction. Our impact on these fragile communities will depend on how we interact with them. – See more at: http://Wilderness.org/blog/why-wildland-lovers-should-care-about-international-climate-change-report#sthash.T30Y8HnL.dpuf

Livestock

Wolves return to Czech Republic

Our Society welcomes the return of wolf to Czech Republic as another great conservation success. However we have to prepare the society to accept the feared animal as part of the Czech landscape.

Research

Human impact on megafauna

The picture drawn at the conference is not really nice about our behaviour.

WILDRivers

Water empowers Wilderness

Water fills our wetlands, which includes lakes and rivers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands and peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, near-shore marine areas, mangroves and coral reefs, and human-made sites such as fish ponds, rice paddies, reservoirs, and salt pans. 22 March is designated as World Water Day by the UN.

Wilderness Wildlife

Biodiversity

Black friday for Sweden’s wolf population

Soomaa: Largest bogland of EU endangered

Killing more predators does not save livestock

The Silencing of European Wilderness

Wolves to be killed by hunters in Spain

Support the protection of wolf in Sweden

Rangers, wildlife and poachers

Europe’s Biodiversity – Isn’t it beautiful?

The way to species extinction

Working to save the raptors

Garbage in the Ocean – Littering marine Wilderness

Protection against all odds

Biodiversity offsetting: Pricing nature or protect it

Why Wilderness lovers should care about climate report

Wolves return to Czech Republic

Human impact on megafauna

Water empowers Wilderness

Protecting forest is protecting life

Poor Wilderness management and its consequences

Urbanising wildlife – Wolves slaughtered in Italy

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