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Call for a radical change to stop deforestation once and for all

New report by WWF reveals that a forest land area totaling 43 million hectares was cut down in just 13

Jalovecka Wilderness versus logging

01/12/202030/11/20202 months ago Vlado Vancura 271 Views 0 Comments Logging, Old growth forests, slovakia, WILDForests 3 min read

Jalovecká is a remote valley located in Tatra National Park, Slovakia. During the centennial flood in 1958, water flushed away

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Bigger means better: large trees capture more carbon

10/11/202009/11/20203 months ago Nick Huisman 506 Views 3 Comments Old growth forests 2 min read

Old trees play an important role in the forest ecosystem, proving resources or other services to many animals and insects.

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Ukrainian Old-Growth Forest Granted Highest Protection-Level

01/10/202007/10/20204 months ago Timothy Sung 542 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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Impressions from a primeval forest

12/08/202012/08/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 726 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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First forest webinar tomorrow

22/07/202029/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 745 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

21/07/202021/07/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 956 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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Old-growth beech forests need more protection

26/06/202025/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 860 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

25/06/202030/09/20207 months ago Vlado Vancura 935 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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Letting the forests grow old again

19/06/202017/06/20207 months ago Nick Huisman 977 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

16/06/202018/06/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 1278 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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Science in the crossfire of Romanian logging conflict

29/05/202028/06/20208 months ago Jonas Sommer 1112 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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How much Wilderness is possible in Germany?

19/05/202019/05/20208 months ago Jonas Sommer 1058 Views 1 Comment forest, Germany, Old growth forests, Wilderness, WILDForests 4 min read

In 2007, the German government officially declared a 2% Wilderness goal until 2020. This made Germany a pioneer in the

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Forest recovery in Majella National Park

07/02/202003/03/202012 months ago Vlado Vancura 1319 Views 1 Comment Beech forest, forest, Majella Wilderness 3 min read

Spontaneous forest recovery in Majella National Park is just astonishing. One can observe it if you visit this area more

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Challenges to protect Slovak Paradise

20/01/202002/04/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1298 Views 0 Comments forests, National Park, slovakia, Wilderness 4 min read

The European Wilderness Society and Slovak Paradise National Park have a successful partnership for several years. Slovak paradise proved that

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Slovakian Wilderness under threat

09/01/202002/04/20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1361 Views 0 Comments forest, Logging, Protected areas, slovakia, Wilderness 2 min read

Slovakia has a great potential to become an important partner in the quest to protect European Wilderness. There are some

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Challenge to protect European forests

18/12/201918/12/20191 year ago Vlado Vancura 1581 Views 0 Comments Europe, Forest loss 4 min read

European forests are under extreme pressure. We can read almost daily the stories that somewhere in Europe forests are dying, logged and disappearing. The initial event leading