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What can we learn from the ‘Anthropause’?

04/08/202030/07/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 264 Views 0 Comments Corona, Research, Wildlife 4 min read

The Covid crisis has turned our world upside down. After months of complete shutdown and subsequent slow re-opening, a second

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Re-live our webinar on endemic bats of Nepal

11/06/202011/06/20203 months ago Jonas Sommer 504 Views 0 Comments Corona, Wildlife 3 min read

Bats are a fascinating group of animals, but they got a lot of bad publicity in the the context of

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Great success of the international expert panel discussion

15/05/202020/05/20204 months ago Hanna Ollos 661 Views 0 Comments climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Corona 5 min read

As part of the Vlado Vancura Wilderness Academy, a very interesting panel took place on 12th May 2020 from 16:00

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How has nature helped you through the lockdown?

14/05/202014/05/20204 months ago Jonas Sommer 589 Views 1 Comment Corona, respect nature 2 min read

Most European countries are slowly lifting restrictions due to Covid-19 and people can move outside more freely again. The team

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Lessons from Covid-19 for the climate crisis

07/05/202004/05/20205 months ago Jonas Sommer 685 Views 1 Comment climate change, climate emergency, Corona 4 min read

For many, Covid-19 is the biggest crisis they have ever experienced. A lot has changed within the last few months.What

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Survey: Will the Corona pandemic change nature conservation?

05/05/202013/05/20205 months ago Jonas Sommer 724 Views 0 Comments climate emergency, conservation, Corona 0 min read

On 12th May 2020, we had an expert panel discussion about the impact of the Corona Pandemic on nature conservation

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A matter of perspective

30/04/202030/04/20205 months ago Anni Henning 686 Views 0 Comments Corona 5 min read

It has been eight weeks since the corona crisis has really hit Europe. On 9th March, Italy entered a national

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Wider consequences of Corona crisis – more nature overexploitation?

20/04/202016/04/20205 months ago Ziva Alif 616 Views 1 Comment conservation, Corona, Wildlife 3 min read

The foremost reason for the current biodiversity crisis is the overexploitation of natural resources by humans. This has already pushed

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Never waste a crisis!

16/04/202024/04/20205 months ago Jonas Sommer 644 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Corona 6 min read

The Corona crisis is already predicted to become the biggest economic crisis in history. Even though we are still in

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Protecting wilderness from home office

10/04/202014/04/20205 months ago Jonas Sommer 690 Views 0 Comments Corona, European Wilderness Society 4 min read

Since 16th March, Austria is in shut down. Hence, the European Wilderness Society decided to send all its employees into

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How environmental destruction paves the way for pandemics

07/04/202007/04/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 1034 Views 0 Comments Corona, Forest loss 3 min read

We are witnessing the worst pandemic of the last hundred years right now. But it did not happen by sheer

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Our economy comes to a halt – so does pollution

31/03/202028/03/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 721 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Corona, pollution 2 min read

The current corona outbreak is a crisis in every sense. It destroys lifes, subsistences and restricts the life of billions.

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Photo challenge: Conservation work from home

30/03/202030/03/20206 months ago Hanna Ollos 806 Views 0 Comments Corona 2 min read

The situation we face based on COVID-19 is changing rapidly. At the moment it may look like our planet is

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Is there a climate-friendly response to the industry demand for financial aid?

27/03/202015/04/20206 months ago Hanna Ollos 764 Views 0 Comments carbon dioxide, climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Corona 3 min read

The coronavirus outbreak has a huge economic impact on various sectors, such as the heavy industry, auto manufacturers, tourism industry

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As countries go on lockdown, nature goes wild

18/03/202006/05/20206 months ago Nick Huisman 1961 Views 0 Comments Corona, respect nature 2 min read

We are witnessing a global change of our daily lives to a degree that did not happen for decades, for

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