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Videos

Livestock Videos 

How wolves change flow of rivers

April 2, 2016July 17, 20205 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2638 Views 8 Comments European Wilderness Society, USA, Video, Wolf 0 min read

“How Wolves Change Rivers” is a four and a half minute clip about the unexpected effects of reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone National Park in the early nineties. This video explains the trophic cascade, or trickle down effect, that happens in all food chains

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Livestock Videos 

Wolf howls in the Sun

March 15, 2016July 17, 20205 years ago Karin Eckhard 2643 Views 0 Comments Video, Wolf 1 min read

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday, March 13 to demonstrate in defense of the Iberian

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Videos Wildlife 

Bison: Slaughtering the icon of Yellowstone

January 8, 2016July 17, 20205 years ago Vlado Vancura 2576 Views 0 Comments USA, Wildlife 1 min read

Wild bisons are allowed to migrate out of Yellowstone National Park and stay in parts of Montana year-round.  This was

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Videos Wildlife 

Wildlife friendly meat

November 11, 2015July 17, 20205 years ago Vlado Vancura 2401 Views 0 Comments Video, Wildlife 0 min read

The conflict between farmer and predator has existed ever since man first domesticated sheep, cattle and other prey animals. Many

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Videos 

National Parks problem, Time to go Wild

November 11, 2015July 17, 20205 years ago Vlado Vancura 1655 Views 0 Comments Protected area management, Video 0 min read

George Monbiot, a columnist of the Guardian, delivered an interesting speech about what the problem is with National Parks in

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Wilderness assessment in Königsbrücker Heide
Livestock Videos 

Wolf pups in Bükk

September 21, 2015July 17, 20206 years ago Vlado Vancura 2677 Views 0 Comments Video, Wolf 0 min read

There have already been signals of a permanent wolf population in the Bükk National Park in Hungary, but the first

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Videos Wildlife 

Singing the bear away

September 3, 2015July 17, 20206 years ago Vlado Vancura 1606 Views 0 Comments Bear, Video 0 min read

This video shows a good tactic of tourists, somewhere in Russia, to avoid conflict with a bear. SING!

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Update: Verifying wilderness in Ukraine
Videos Wilderness 

Video – Trip to the Wilderness of NP Zacharovanyy Kray in the Ukraine

April 29, 2015July 17, 20206 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1683 Views 1 Comment Ukraine, Zacharovanyy kray 0 min read

Our team presents the video report about the trip to the Wilderness zone of National Park Zacharovanyy Kray in the

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Videos WILDRivers 

Small Hydro Power

April 17, 2015August 1, 20196 years ago Vlado Vancura 1682 Views 1 Comment Video 0 min read

Interesting animation video why we should not consider more hydro power dam along our rivers.

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Livestock Videos 

Silent Wanderer – short film on the beauty and magic of wolves

March 10, 2015January 29, 20206 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1796 Views 0 Comments Video, Wolf 0 min read

Silent Wanderer: Short film by Sami Fayed highlighting the social and biological aptitudes of Canis lupus

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Videos Wilderness Policy 

Sweden’s old growth forests threatened by clear-cutting

February 19, 2015November 28, 20196 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2283 Views 3 Comments Logging, Old growth forests 0 min read

Alec Forss reports in an article that Sweden’s old growth forests will be clear cut by 2035 and this will threaten thousands of

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Livestock Videos 

Wolves to be killed by hunters in Spain

November 4, 2014July 17, 20206 years ago Karin Eckhard 3658 Views 2 Comments Advocacy, Biodiversity, European Wilderness Society, Wildlife, Wolf 1 min read

In March of this year, Lobo Marley, an association “Citizens for Wolf and the Rural World”, participated anonymously in the

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Research Videos 

WWF Living Planet Report 2014 – protected areas act as Noahs Arc

October 22, 2014July 17, 20206 years ago Gudrun Pflüger 2668 Views 0 Comments Research, Video 1 min read

The 2014 ‚Living Planet Report’ study by WWF reveals a most concerning result: Within the past 40 years more than

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Javelin Sand Boa believed to be extinct since 1937 rediscovered in Romania
Videos Wildlife 

Javelin Sand Boa believed to be extinct since 1937 rediscovered in Romania

September 16, 2014December 12, 20187 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2308 Views 5 Comments Romania 0 min read

The Javelin Sand boa is the rarest snake species in Europe and the only boa species from the Old Continent.

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Training Videos 

Boys in the wild

September 16, 2014December 12, 20187 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1621 Views 2 Comments Education and Training 0 min read

Children today spend on average close to 50 hours every week in front of computers, in social networks on tecting

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Videos Wildlife 

Can lions and humans be friends

September 9, 2014July 17, 20207 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 5448 Views 3 Comments Video, Wildlife 0 min read

As always it is matter of perspective. In this instance an animal that scares most humans can be a kitten

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Videos Wildlife 

Bears and Human Coexistence

September 5, 2014July 17, 20207 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1729 Views 0 Comments Bear, Video 1 min read

There have been lately quite a few calls for either shooting or capturing the almost 20 year old female bear

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Training Videos 

Love! Not Loss

September 1, 2014July 17, 20207 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1571 Views 0 Comments Video 0 min read

This new video presents a new biodiversity message. It challenges communicators to talk about nature in terms that people want

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Videos Wildlife 

Take a flight with a condor

August 11, 2014July 17, 20207 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1589 Views 0 Comments USA, Video, Wilderness 0 min read

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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Videos Wildlife 

Restocking of fish in remote areas with an airplane

July 15, 2014July 17, 20207 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2903 Views 0 Comments Wildlife 0 min read

When you can’t carry thousands of fish to a body of water by truck, you drop them from the sky.

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