Wilderness Archives

Natura 2000 Fitness Check Timeframe and Questionnaire

The EU Birds and Habitats Directives are the centerpiece of EU environmental legislation, they form the basis of the Natura

Wilderness Policy

Watch out for the Natura 2000 fitness check

The EU Birds and Habitats Directives are the centerpiece of EU environmental legislation, they form the basis of the Natura

Sustainable Tourism

The importance of non-extractive values

In the past decade, the importance of economic analysis of ecosystem services of protected areas has caught the attention of

Sustainable Tourism

Amusement or education

A recent blogpost on Sean David Smith blogpost was asking a question whether protected areas managed by the US National

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Research

Efficient and sustainable ecological restoration

According to the 3rd Global Biodiversity Outlook report published in 2010 mentioned the opportunity to restore Wilderness (aka rewilding) 100,000

Wilderness

Obama Administration moves to protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Recommended Largest Ever Wilderness Designation to Protect Pristine Habitat WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama’s Administration moved to protect the Arctic

European Wilderness Society

Shifting Baseline Syndrome: The disease of forgetting what has been lost in nature

Here at European Wilderness Society we are trying, in a way, to cure Europe of this disease. But what is

European Wilderness Society

Wilderness at Work in 2015

The New Year’s Resolution for Wilderness! 2015 will mark the middle of the UN Decade on Biodiversity, which aims at

Wilderness Policy WILDRivers

Soomaa: Largest bogland of EU endangered

Soomaa National Park was created in Estonia in 1993 to protect large raised bogs, flood plain grasslands, paludified forests and

Wildlife

Killing more predators does not save livestock

According to a recent study by Washington State University, the killing of predators actually has the opposite effect, it increases the

European Wilderness Society

Wildnis im Dialog – Analyse-System für potentielle Wildnisgebiete in Deutschland

Analyse-System zur Definition und Zertifizierung von Wildnisgebieten in Deutschland Auf der Tagung „Wildnis im Dialog“ des Bundesamt für Naturschutz zur