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Protected areas

WILDForest 

Romanian National Parks victims of deforestation

24/09/201826/05/20202 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3050 Views 1 Comment Protected area management, Protected areas, Romania, Video 1 min read

A new investigative video reveals insights into the illegal logging, hunting and deforestation in Romania’s protected areas. The video, published

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Wilderness Policy 

Half-Earth, Whole-Earth… Wild Earth

18/09/201806/11/20202 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3115 Views 0 Comments Protected areas 2 min read

The current global aim is to expand protected area coverage across the world to cover 17% of land and 10%

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Wilderness Policy 

New IUCN report – Assessing Ecosystem Services

10/09/201806/11/20192 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1976 Views 0 Comments IUCN, Protected areas 1 min read

IUCN have produced a new report which enables protected area management teams to assess how natural areas can benefit people.

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Sustainable Tourism Wilderness Policy 

The Economic Inequality of Protected Areas

25/04/201801/03/20193 years ago Vlado Vancura 1623 Views 0 Comments Protected areas, Research, Sustainable tourism 1 min read

The Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas report from researchers in Cambridge,

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WILDForest 

Scientists and organisations demand Italian President to save forests

03/04/201802/04/20203 years ago Nick Huisman 1781 Views 0 Comments Italy, Policy and Legislation, Protected areas, WILDForests 2 min read

The Italian government recently approved a controversial legislative change in the national Forest Law (Law 28, July 2016, Nr. 154).

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Wilderness Wilderness Network News 

Romania promotes Wilderness among Protected Areas

23/02/201811/05/20203 years ago Nick Huisman 3684 Views 1 Comment Logging, Protected area management, Protected areas, Romania 1 min read

The European Wilderness Society met with the Romanian National Agency of Natural Protected Areas in Bucharest last December. The National

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European Wilderness Society 

Scientific ecological assessment of the Svydovets Massif, Ukrainian Carpathians

12/02/201814/12/20183 years ago Iryna Shchoka 1889 Views 0 Comments Protected areas, Sustainable tourism, Svydovets, Wilderness 3 min read

We are sure that you are already aware of the plans to build a huge ski resort ecological in an

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European Wilderness Society 

Meeting Romanian National Agency of Natural Protected Areas

12/12/201729/08/20193 years ago Nick Huisman 1837 Views 1 Comment Logging, Protected area management, Protected areas, Romania 1 min read

During a multi-day visit in Romania, European Wilderness Society had a meeting with the newly established ANANP. The ANANP is

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European Wilderness Society 

Inspiring Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, Salzburg

02/11/201729/08/20193 years ago Nick Huisman 2380 Views 0 Comments Protected area management, Protected areas, Research 0 min read

To give you a short impression of the first day at the 6th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, here

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WILDForest 

Poland ignores EU Court and UNESCO, continues logging in World Heritage Bialowieza forest

27/10/201714/12/20183 years ago Nick Huisman 3074 Views 1 Comment Logging, Protected area management, Protected areas, UNESCO World Heritage 1 min read

Despite direct orders from the EU Court of Justice to ban all logging operations in Bialowieza forest, Poland continues logging

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Wilderness 

Support creation of Peatbog Landscape Reserve in Ukraine

19/02/201712/12/20184 years ago Iryna Shchoka 2828 Views 2 Comments Protected areas, Ukraine, Wilderness 1 min read

Local activists are calling green-conscious citizens of Ukraine to support the petition for creation of Reserve near Lviv city, Western

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Trump´s Border Fences aren’t good for People and they aren’t good for Wildlife
European Wilderness Society Wilderness Wildlife 

Trump’s Border Fences aren’t good for People and they aren’t good for Wildlife

28/01/201723/04/20194 years ago Vlado Vancura 1739 Views 1 Comment Biodiversity, Policy and Legislation, Protected areas, USA, Wolf 3 min read

One of Donald Trump’s first moves as President of the United States of America was to order the go-ahead to

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Wilderness 

Big hope for Antarctica – world’s largest marine reserve created

24/01/201721/11/20194 years ago Iryna Shchoka 2470 Views 0 Comments Protected areas, Wildlife 2 min read

New 598,000 square-mile protected area is more than twice the size of Texas, and will protect everything from penguins to

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Don’t change climate – educate youth project started
Training 

Don’t change climate – educate youth project started

12/01/201706/05/20194 years ago Iryna Shchoka 2657 Views 0 Comments Education and Training, Protected areas, Ukraine 1 min read

We are happy to announce that the environmental educational project for young generation “Don’t change climate – educate youth”, was

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Tarutinsky Steppe: Europe's Natural Heritage in danger
Wilderness 

Massive destruction of protected area Tarutyns’kyj steppe

15/12/201609/01/20184 years ago Iryna Shchoka 2456 Views 0 Comments Protected areas, Ukraine, Wilderness, Wildlife 2 min read

In August 2016, the district administration became known that at Tarutyns’kyj steppe from the perspective of farmers is carried a

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Wilderness 

The trouble with National Parks in Europe

05/10/201617/01/20194 years ago Vlado Vancura 3128 Views 2 Comments Europe, Italy, Logging, Protected area management, Protected areas 3 min read

Everything starts with naivety. In our naivety we think national park status guarantees protection status in Europe. The practice is

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Wilderness 

6th International Symposium for Research in Protected Areas

07/09/201614/11/20194 years ago Vlado Vancura 2334 Views 0 Comments Hohe Tauern, Protected areas, Research 1 min read

National Parks Austria and Hohe Tauern National Park are pleased to announce the 6th International Symposium for Research in Protected Areas,

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Ecological connectivity between Alps and Apennines
Wilderness Policy 

Nature, wildlife, Wilderness – what are they worth?

24/08/201614/12/20185 years ago Vlado Vancura 2344 Views 0 Comments Advocacy, Protected areas, USA 1 min read

This news is in contribution to the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service (part 1)! Resent an independent

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Wilderness 

Our commitment to the Ukraine and its Wilderness

01/08/201614/12/20185 years ago Iryna Shchoka 2629 Views 1 Comment European Wilderness Network, European Wilderness Quality Standard, European Wilderness Society, Protected areas, Synevyr, Ukraine, Zacharovanyy kray 5 min read

The European Wilderness Society audited according to the European Wilderness Quality Standard several new potential Wilderness areas in the Ukraine.

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Ecological connectivity between Alps and Apennines
Wilderness 

Does size matter?

24/09/201505/02/20205 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2184 Views 6 Comments Protected areas, Wilderness 2 min read

We have always been asked why we are so persistent with the minimum size of Wilderness areas. We were criticized

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