According recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) statistic, close to 15% of the Earth’s land and 7% of its territorial waters are covered by protected areas. Particularly remarkable is that the coverage of
Tag: Protected areas
Slovakian Wilderness under threat
Slovakia has a great potential to become an important partner in the quest to protect European Wilderness. There are some areas in the country under strict non-intervention regime already for several decades. According official statistics,
Trump: US to lift protection of Tongass National Forest
The American President Mr. Trump is making his next move against natural protected areas. According to CNN, Trump has asked his agricultural secretary to lift the protection of Tongass National Forest. Tongass is the largest
Rules for geocaching in protected areas
Geocaching started in 2000 as an outdoor leisure activity, similar to a scavenger hunt. The game basically involves participants in hiding and finding containers, called geocaches or caches based on locations marked by GPS coordinates
New project launched for Carpathian Protected Areas
The European Wilderness Society is excited to share the news that Centralparks, a new transboundary project in the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme has officially started in April 2019. The project focuses on building management capacities
Offshore drilling halted – a win for Wilderness
The first 100 days in the oval office are the days that will define your presidency in America. This is a principle set out by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Critically affecting Wilderness are Trump’s attempts
Rewilding Forests in National Park Hunsrück-Hochwald
The German National Park Hunsrück-Hochwald lets its forests develop freely. The objective is to reach a natural tree species composition and to give the forest room and time to do so on its own. The
UN declares decade of ecosystem restoration
On March 1st 2019 the general assembly of the United Nations agreed on a decade of ecosystem restoration for 2021-2030. This decision is a call to action to the international community. It further underlines the
Go Wild! Stay Cultured! – Photo Contest
The European Wilderness Society’s partner CEEWeb for Biodiversity is organising a photography contest called Go Wild! Stay Cultured!. The contest marks also 2018 as the European Year of Cultural Heritage. This competition focuses on the interlinkage
Private Wilderness in Slovensky Raj
Slovensky raj translates directly to mean ‘Slovak Paradise’ in Slovakian. Part of the area is a candidate member of the European Wilderness Network because of its high biodiversity, wild forests and high number of gorges,
Romanian National Parks victims of deforestation
A new investigative video reveals insights into the illegal logging, hunting and deforestation in Romania’s protected areas. The video, published by nature conservation agencies Agent Green and EuroNatur demonstrates the situation in the National Park Cheile
Half-Earth, Whole-Earth… Wild Earth
The current global aim is to expand protected area coverage across the world to cover 17% of land and 10% of the oceans. This is known as Aichi Target 11, and was agreed upon at
New IUCN report – Assessing Ecosystem Services
IUCN have produced a new report which enables protected area management teams to assess how natural areas can benefit people. 20 international experts compared nine tools to assess ecosystem services. This can be used to
The Economic Inequality of Protected Areas
The Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas report from researchers in Cambridge, UK, Princeton, New Jersey, and Washington, DC, revealed that the world protected natural areas receive
Scientists and organisations demand Italian President to save forests
The Italian government recently approved a controversial legislative change in the national Forest Law (Law 28, July 2016, Nr. 154). Mr Enrico Borghi (Democratic Party) proposed the changes in the Forest Law. As President of
Romania promotes Wilderness among Protected Areas
The European Wilderness Society met with the Romanian National Agency of Natural Protected Areas in Bucharest last December. The National Agency aims to improve the institutional capacity for Protected Areas across Romania. In Protected Areas
Scientific ecological assessment of the Svydovets Massif, Ukrainian Carpathians
We are sure that you are already aware of the plans to build a huge ski resort ecological in an important valuable part of theUkrainian Carpathians, more specifically the north-central part of the Svydovetsky Massif
Meeting Romanian National Agency of Natural Protected Areas
During a multi-day visit in Romania, European Wilderness Society had a meeting with the newly established ANANP. The ANANP is Romania’s National Agency of Natural Protected Areas, located in Bucharest. The Agency aims to improve
Inspiring Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, Salzburg
To give you a short impression of the first day at the 6th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, here are some pictures! Four of our team members will be attending also tomorrow. Our colleague
Poland ignores EU Court and UNESCO, continues logging in World Heritage Bialowieza forest
Despite direct orders from the EU Court of Justice to ban all logging operations in Bialowieza forest, Poland continues logging activities in this unique UNESCO World Heritage. Beginning this year, the Polish government has allowed a