European Wilderness Society meets Dr John Hausdoerffer and Terry Minger
After one week in Washington D.C. I arrived in Boulder, Colorado, today. My first meeting was with Dr. John Hausdoerffer
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European Wilderness Society meeting with PEW Foundation, US Forest Service, US Dept of the Interior and the Wilderness Society
I just had several really interesting and productive meetings in Washington D.C. with great Wilderness advocates. PEW Foundation On behalf of
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European Wilderness Society visits Washington, DC
I was heartily welcomed and had very productive meetings in Washington DC with the US National Park Service, the Aldo Leopold
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International cooperation: European Wilderness Society and the United States
International cooperation is a key feature within the European Wilderness Society. Not only within Europe, but also worldwide. Building on
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Cooperate to educate on nature conservation
Although nature conservation organisations all strive for a similar goal, most of them mind their own business. However, performing training
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German farmers demand the killing of wild boars because of the African swine fever
The African swine fever is spreading via Western Europe from Russia and the Baltic area for some years already. The
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Wilderness can also be a home
Wilderness has several interpretations in Europe and one European definition, but few of us interpret Wilderness as a home. Wilderness
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Gudrun Pflüger visits Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada
This week, our colleague Gudrun Pflüger is visiting the Banff Mountain Film + Book Festival in Alberta, Canada. The festival
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European Beech Forest Network Resolution on Beech Forest World Heritage and Old Growth Forests
From 12-15 October 2017, 33 experts representing 12 European countries including the European Wilderness Society convened on the Isle of
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Increased nitrogen deposition decreases biodiversity and threatens Wilderness
Prof Roman Turk already presented the negative impact of nitrogen levels emitted by large urban centres and the transportation sector
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Austria’s biggest glacier is rapidly disappearing: the Pasterze
Climate change, or as we prefer to call it “climate overheating”, is currently one of the biggest threats to our
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Natural forces in Königsbrücker Heide after 25 years
Last week European Wilderness Society and US-Wilderness expert Garry Oye visited the Königsbrücker Heide Wilderness in Germany. Königsbrücker Heide was Quick-Audited
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Wilderness has no WiFi, but you’ll have a better connection
A strong focus point of the European Wilderness Society is that our own team goes out into the field. We
Read MoreAreas of Inspiration Plein Air Art project started
Machaon International, the Slovak Association of Nature Conservation, invited the European Wilderness Society together with AnnoGallery and Obec Ganovce from
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Wilderness Book as a piece of Art – finally in English!
Let me announce with a great pleasure that a limited number of copies of the book: A Year in the Wilderness
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Is there a strategy for Wolf protection in Italy?
After days and weeks in which the Wolf Plan looked like a military secret, we all now have in our
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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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Arguments on importance of Carpathian Wilderness in Ukraine!
Carpathian Wilderness is extremely important to Europe! More and more young researchers are focusing on this subject not only to provide
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New film about Wilderness in Germany
Under the guidance of the Zoological Society of Frankfurt a new short film depicting Wilderness in Germany was filmed. The
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Why is Wilderness important?
There are a long list of arguments answering the question ‘Why is Wilderness important?’, available on our website ! Arguments come from
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