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Climate change 

How climate change threatens bats

August 31, 2022August 31, 20225 months ago Victoria Steckhan 358 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

Bats are beautiful and unique creatures found all around the globe, but they often get a bad name. They are

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Research 

Increased COVID-19-related litter threatens environment and wildlife

January 10, 2022September 20, 20221 year ago Magdalena Meikl 806 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment will take years to understand. British scientists investigated the effects

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Wildlife 

Predator problem: Britain’s burgeoning deer population

January 20, 2021January 25, 20212 years ago Timothy Sung 2648 Views 3 Comments 6 min read

This is the first part of a two-part article. You can find the next article regarding the proposed rewilding efforts

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Wilderness Policy 

EU as role model to fight climate change

October 15, 2020October 13, 20202 years ago Julia Ramsauer 1807 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Last week, the European Union Parliament voted for an ambitious increase of the percentage of greenhouse gas emissions to be

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Wildlife 

Urban Wildlife: A Contradiction?

October 12, 2020August 19, 20212 years ago Timothy Sung 1952 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

How can wildlife be urban and wild at the same time? This question is becoming ever more relevant as an

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Wilderness Policy 

Global climate strike 2020 this Friday, 25th of September

September 24, 2020September 24, 20202 years ago Julia Ramsauer 2099 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

Flashback: Greta Thunberg first striked for the climate in August 2018. The movement “Fridays for Future” gained momentum throughout 2019.

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Research Wildlife 

What can we learn from the ‘Anthropause’?

August 4, 2020July 30, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2243 Views 0 Comments 6 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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Research Wildlife 

Re-live our webinar on endemic bats of Nepal

June 11, 2020August 16, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2299 Views 0 Comments 4 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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European Wilderness Society 

Great success of the international expert panel discussion

May 15, 2020May 20, 20203 years ago Hanna Ollos 2442 Views 0 Comments 9 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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European Wilderness Society 

How has nature helped you through the lockdown?

May 14, 2020April 20, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2490 Views 1 Comment 3 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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Wilderness Policy 

Lessons from Covid-19 for the climate crisis

May 7, 2020April 7, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2522 Views 1 Comment 5 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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Wilderness Policy Wildlife 

Survey: Will the Corona pandemic change nature conservation?

May 5, 2020May 13, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2551 Views 0 Comments 1 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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Wilderness Policy Wildlife 

A matter of perspective

April 30, 2020April 30, 20203 years ago Anni Henning 2584 Views 0 Comments 6 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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Wildlife 

Wider consequences of Corona crisis – more nature overexploitation?

April 20, 2020April 16, 20203 years ago Ziva Alif 2745 Views 1 Comment 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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Wilderness Policy 

Never waste a crisis!

April 16, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2592 Views 0 Comments 7 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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European Wilderness Society 

Protecting wilderness from home office

April 10, 2020August 19, 20213 years ago Jonas Sommer 2695 Views 0 Comments 10 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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Wilderness Wildlife 

How environmental destruction paves the way for pandemics

April 7, 2020April 7, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 3541 Views 1 Comment 4 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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Sustainable Tourism Wilderness Policy 

Our economy comes to a halt – so does pollution

March 31, 2020March 28, 20203 years ago Jonas Sommer 2772 Views 0 Comments 3 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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European Wilderness Society 

Photo challenge: Conservation work from home

March 30, 2020March 30, 20203 years ago Hanna Ollos 3023 Views 1 Comment 3 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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European Wilderness Society 

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

March 27, 2020April 15, 20203 years ago Hanna Ollos 2728 Views 0 Comments 4 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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