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Ukrainian Old-Growth Forest Granted Highest Protection-Level

01/10/202030/09/20201 hour ago Timothy Sung 22 Views 0 Comments Old growth forests, Ukraine, WILDForests 4 min read

In the Trans-Carpathian and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine, 37 new natural monuments, covering 4750 hectares, were recently set up to

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Deep ecology: Defending the Earth

10/09/202008/09/20203 weeks ago Hanna Ollos 220 Views 1 Comment respect nature, wilderness stewardship 4 min read

What impacts the relationship of humans and nature and in what do we see the true value of nature? This

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International Wilderness Week – coming soon!

31/08/202007/09/20201 month ago Gintare Tamulyte 156 Views 0 Comments Wilderness Week, World Wilderness Conference 4 min read

The first of its kind online ‘International Wilderness Week‘ will take place from 19th to 23rd October 2020. Five days

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What Does an Anti-Racist Wilderness Look Like?

13/08/202014/08/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 432 Views 7 Comments Wilderness 10 min read

The issue of racism and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement have spread around the world within the last months. It

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Impressions from a primeval forest

12/08/202012/08/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 324 Views 0 Comments Austria, forest, Old growth forests, Wilderness 4 min read

Continuing our series about Wilderness research, today Yehor Yatsiuk tells us about his impressions from of the few remaining patches

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The climate crisis dries out Europe

10/08/202008/08/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 416 Views 0 Comments climate, climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Europe, forest, forest future, Forest loss 4 min read

Many countries around Europe, especially Central Europe, sound the alarm. Ground water levels and soil moisture are on a historic

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The beautiful world of (non-) fungi in a Wilderness area

24/07/202022/07/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 334 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, Wilderness, Wilderness Week 3 min read

Today, we are happy to share a story from Iryna Yatsiuk, a mycologist from Eastern Ukraine living is Estonia. A

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First forest webinar tomorrow

22/07/202029/07/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 396 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, forest, forest future, webinar 1 min read

Tomorrow, 23rd July, our first webinar about the role of biodiversity in forests will take place. At 13.15 we start

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Erstes Webinar zum Thema Biodiversität im Wald

21/07/202021/07/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 585 Views 0 Comments Biodiversity, forest, forest future, webinar 1 min read

Übermorgen, am Donnerstag den 23. Juli findet die Auftaktveranstaltung zu unserer Webinarreihe “Multperspektivischer Blick auf die Biodiversität im Wald” statt.

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Webinar 9th July 15:00 CET Tourism in Wilderness

07/07/202007/07/20203 months ago Max A.E. Rossberg 467 Views 0 Comments Sustainable tourism, webinar, Wilderness 1 min read

Wilderness and protected areas are facing challenges with visitors and tourism, as more and more people are interested in seeing

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Wilderness in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030

29/06/202026/06/20203 months ago Jonas Sommer 556 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Network, European Wilderness Quality Standard, European Wilderness Society, Wilderness, wilderness stewardship, WILDForests, WILDRiver 5 min read

We already covered the main points of the new ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030‘ and its commitment to free-flowing rivers. But

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Old-growth beech forests need more protection

26/06/202025/06/20203 months ago Jonas Sommer 538 Views 0 Comments Beech, Beech forest, Germany, UNESCO World Heritage 4 min read

Last year, the German action group for forest protection ‘BundesBürgerInitiative WaldSchutz’ declared the 25th June as the ‘Day of Beech

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Fedir Hamor’s new book describes his fight for primeval beech forests

25/06/202030/09/20203 months ago Vlado Vancura 582 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

The protection of Primeval European beech forests was a long process that stretched over several decades. This process is closely

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Dark future for remaining Wilderness

23/06/202024/06/20203 months ago Vlado Vancura 678 Views 0 Comments Wilderness 3 min read

A study conducted by a team of conservation biologists reveals how little Wilderness is left in the world. It also

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Letting the forests grow old again

19/06/202017/06/20203 months ago Nick Huisman 630 Views 1 Comment Logging, Old growth forests 1 min read

All across Europe, logging of old growth forests takes place at alarming rates. These trees, often several hundreds of years

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First ever ‘Science National park’ proposed in Finland

16/06/202018/06/20204 months ago Jonas Sommer 898 Views 0 Comments National Park, Protected area management, Protected areas, Research 3 min read

A proposal for the world’s first science national park has been submitted to Finland’s Ministry of the Environment with a

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Exploring the potential of Wilderness in France

01/06/202027/05/20204 months ago Nick Huisman 726 Views 1 Comment France 2 min read

Several months ago, the French President Macron announced to commit 10% of France to full naturalness. This important commitment paves the

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Science in the crossfire of Romanian logging conflict

29/05/202028/06/20204 months ago Jonas Sommer 756 Views 1 Comment forest, Logging, Old growth forests, Research, Romania 5 min read

The conflict about illegally logged timber in Romania has already seen various stages of escalation. Now science has also been

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EU commits to support free-flowing rivers

27/05/202030/09/20204 months ago Vlado Vancura 923 Views 0 Comments bio, Europe, river, WILDRiver 2 min read

The recently released the new EU-wide Biodiversity Strategy revealed the ambition to put Europe’s biodiversity on the path to recovery

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Natura 2000 Day: Success story with room to improve

21/05/202021/05/20204 months ago Jonas Sommer 587 Views 0 Comments Europe, Natura 2000, Wilderness 2 min read

Today is the 28th birthday of the EU Habitat Directive and the LIFE programme. To celebrate this, the European Union

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