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!
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Protected areas
Protected Areas Solutions Group
According to the European Environmental Agency report on protected areas in Europe (October 2012), 21% of Europe’s land territory is
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Wilderness experience in Jasper National Park, Canada
Jasper National Park is the largest piece of Wilderness in Canadians Rocky Mountain and and excellent place to experience power of the Wilderness.
Continue readingWild ungulates spreading in Aragon
A recent scientific study shows increase of wild ungulate population in Aragon, Spain. However further research is needed to prove the reasons of this wildlife number increase.
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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.
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Mapping green infrastructure
The report also identifies key habitats for large forest-dwelling mammals and the analysis of connectivity among them.
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Wilderness is biodiversity and…
The US National Park Service has recently published the ‘2012 National Park Visitor Spending Effects report’. The study shows that the whole National Park System (NPS), which is largely Wilderness!, received over 282 million recreation visits.
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PAN Parks advised to file bankruptcy
We were informed today, that the PAN Parks Foundation Board of Directors has been advised by the appointed liquidator to enter bankruptcy proceedings
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Wilderness is a necessity… also in Europe
With a great pleasure we share a personal experience of our long supporter and Wilderness Advocate Mr. Juraj Svajda who is currently on a 12 month study trip in the US, working on a research project in the Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado):
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Latest Wilderness news from Ukraine!
However way from the main cities and right at the border with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, the Ukrainian Carpathians are among the most remote – and certainly among the most Wilderness rich – areas the country has to offer. A tiny fragment of the 1,500-kilometre range of mountains stretching in an arc from the Czech Republic to Serbia via Poland and Romania, they occupy the westernmost corner of Ukraine and host their share of the wildlife – wolves, bears, lynxes and a variety of plant species – for which the Carpathians are famous.
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Hunting ban on wolf
Great news that Slovakia finally intoduces a hunting ban in Western Slovakia bordering Poland and Czech Republic in order to
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21st century protected area
The first protected area, the Yellowstone National Park, was set up in the 19th century. In the 20th century there was a boom in setting up protected areas as a believed key to halt biodiversity loss. How will protected areas look like in the 21st century?
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Wilderness in our Mountains
Today is the time to celebrate our Mountains! In 2003 the General Assembly of the UN designated the 11th of December as the International Mountain Day! The UN encourages events to be organized at all levels of this day.
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Can we afford Wilderness in Europe?
This is a question I am asking myself in the last weeks again and again. The motivation of thinking in this direction I got after reading a wonderful article written by Ralf Buckley, Can We Afford Wilderness?
Continue readingUNESCO Biosphere Reserve – what precisely is that?
The world consists of very different types of ecosystems and in every type of these ecosystems people have learnt how to live there
The goal of the biosphere reserve is to uncover this knowledge, use it and adapt it for the future.
National Park status threatened in the Tatra, Slovakia
Based on translation on topky.sk There are more and more evidences that short-term financial interest overrides biodiversity and Wilderness protection
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Planning and Managing Tourism in Protected Areas
Written by Juraj Švajda, MatejBel University, Slovakia Nearly 20 participants from around the world attended an intensive 2.5 week mobile seminar
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