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Vjosa National Park: Victory over hydropower on the doorstep

The last European wild rivers are under increasing threat, due to inadequate or complete lack of protection, traditional use or

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Exclusive conservation career advice

Are you studying and worried about the job hunt when you graduate? Are you looking for work right now, but

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Re-Connecting Wilderness

Nowadays, there are many threats to the connectivity of landscapes. Despite the importance of connecting protected areas, that was outlined

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Mitigating the Disintegration of Wilderness

Wilderness areas play a key role in protecting the world’s biodiversity, according to a recent report published in the Nature

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Ukrainian Old-Growth Forest Granted Highest Protection-Level

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

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

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What Does an Anti-Racist Wilderness Look Like?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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