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How can brown bears live alongside humans?
Human encroachment into large carnivore habitats and expansion of large carnivore ranges into anthropogenic settings increase the potential for human-wildlife conflicts. Future carnivore survival and population recovery therefore depend on their ability to adapt to...
True Nature Foundation teams up with the Portuguese Ecological Society to promote Ecology Day
The Portuguese Ecological Society (SPECO), with the support of the European Ecological Federation (EEF) have, since 2017, celebrated and promoted Ecology Day around the globe on the 14th of September. On this day, ecologists will gather to show new and regular...
First bison calf born in the Cantabrian Mountains, Valle del Bisonte
Riaño, 16 June 2020 - The first European bison calf is born in the Cantabrian mountains in unprecedented wild conditions, similar to those 12,000 years ago when the bison roamed these mountains freely. The newborn calf was born out of a herd of European bison,...
Ecosystem restoration as a strategic response to mitigation and management of Covid-19 and other zoonotic diseases
Zoonotic diseases – diseases that pass from an animal to a human – have gained international attention in recent years (UNEP, 2020). Globally, there is a growing concern about the zoonotic origins of many global pandemics. Increasing human-animal interactions are...
Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth: a joined strategy for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
True Nature Foundation has endorsed the Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth, an outcome of the 11th World Wilderness Congress process. This important new Charter was officially launched on April 16 2020. At this time 96 organisations from across the world have...
Subspecies important for future evolution of species
Scientists have proved one of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution for the first time -- nearly 140 years after his death. Laura van Holstein, a PhD student in Biological Anthropology at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, discovered mammal subspecies play a...
Natural grazing for wildfire prevention in the Danube Delta
The largest reed bed of Europe can be found in the delta of the river Danube, in Romania and Ukraine. This delta of 730,000 ha is home to many bird and fish species. It provides the local people in the delta with fertile river clay, seafood, tourism and of course the...
Rewilding: Large-scale conservation aimed at restoring balance of the natural world
For a long time, many species have been so scarce that they are hardly ever seen. Humanity has wiped out over fifty percent of all mammals, birds and fish in as many years. Across Europe, efforts to restore the balance of ecosystems damaged by the human footprint are...
Rewilding with large herbivores: Positive direct and delayed effects of carrion on plant and arthropod communities
Carrion of large animals is an extremely nutrient rich, ephemeral resource that is essential for many species, but is scarce in the anthropogenic Western-European landscape due to legislative restrictions. Rewilding, a novel conservation strategy that aims at...
Equator Prize 2000: A global search for local nature-based solutions for sustainable development
The Equator Initiative announces a global call for nominations for the Equator Prize 2020. The prize will be awarded to outstanding local community and indigenous peoples’ initiatives that advance nature-based solutions for sustainable development. The winners will...