Your opinion counts: Jurassic Park helps rewilding?
Your opinion counts and our team is really interested in hearing comments on the article of Woolly mammoth. Please also
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Wilderness
WILD10: Vision for a Wilder Europe
Leaders of 11 of Europe’s most influential Wilderness protection organisations joined forces to further promote the 3rd resolution of the 10th World
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Wilderness in Natura 2000
When writing this post, 2235 days (more than 319 weeks, 73 months or 6 years) passed away since the European
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
Read MoreShifting 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WWF and the European Wilderness Society agreed to cooperate on Wilderness issues
At the European Wilderness Academy Days in Mittersill WWF Austria and the European Wilderness Society agreed to a far reaching cooperation
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Wilderness in Slovakia
The largest piece of Wilderness in Central Europe can be found in Slovakian part of Carpathians, in Silent Valley, in
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Marine Wilderness under threat
Salt company Frisia Zout has been given the green light to mine salt from under the Wadden Sea, saying there
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Pan European Green Corridor Network
Based on the enthusiastic response to our Pyrenees to Carpathians natural green corridor project, our Society decided to develop the
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Keynote Speech presented by Victoria Hasler from the Austrian Ministry of Environment
Victoria Hasler from the Austrian Ministry of Environment will hold the keynote speech at the European Wilderness Academy Days focusing
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Take a flight with a condor
This video shows the impressive flight of the condors of the Pinnacles National Park, one of California’s most unique Wilderness landscapes. Glide
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