10 most recent news and agenda items

Wisent in Polish Tradition

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:43:13 +0200

Conference 'Wisent in Polish Tradition'

Organized by the European Bison Friends Society on September 6th -7th 2012.

Click here tot go to the official website.

International Wild Equid Conference

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:55:24 +0200

18-22 September 2012, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

The 2012 International Wild Equid Conference is a meeting of scientists, managers, and wildlife professionals that are actively working on issues of equid conservation and management throughout the world. Wild equids continue to face decline globally and this meeting will provide a platform for engaging professionals in constructive discussion, collaborative conservation action, and stimulating innovative approaches to conservation and management. In contrast, feral horse populations continue to increase rapidly and often compete with native wildlife, including wild equids, and innovative tools are needed to estimate abundance and control population growth rates. Topics of this meeting will include ecology of wild equids, equid-human conflict, genetics, equine disease, abundance estimation, conservation of small populations, management of overabundant populations, and wild equid reintroductions.

Click here for more information about the program.

Newsletter Spring 2012

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:20:31 +0200

Dear friends, a spring fresh version of the LHNet newsletter is now available.

Enjoy reading!

Release of 3rd newsletter - October 2011

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:50:10 +0200

The 3rd LHNet newsletter is now online.

Read more about fundraising, the updated landscape database, Facebook and other items. Go to the newsletter page.

Wilderness Working Group meeting

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:42:14 +0200

On 11 and 12 April LHNet joined the Wilderness Working Group (WWG) meeting in Brussels. This working group brings together leading wild area practitioners and nature protection organizations from across Europe. It is meant as a technical expertise group to the Wild Europe Initiative.

Its work includes assessing practical definitions, mapping, support for new initiatives such as the Wilderness Register, and fundraising proposals for a Pan-European communications strategy. Main topics this meeting were the Wilderness Register and a discussion and agreement on the wilderness definition.

Species re-introduction assessments: bid for proposals

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:23:54 +0200

The Caucasus Nature Fund (CNF) and WWF-Caucasus Programme Office are making a short-term consultancy announcement for feasibility study:

1. Reintroduction of bezoar goat in Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, Georgia
2. Caucasian red deer (maral) in Dilijan National Park, Armenia

For more information, visit the project descriptions.

Vote for funding EOCA

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:03:30 +0200

The European Outdoor Conservation Association (eoca) has selected six nature projects for funding. Now public may decide which of these projects will make it to the last round through an online voting process. Voting is possible until 1st of April.

We wish all the project candidates good luck!

Bison and Biodiversity

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:07:04 +0100

In an article published on National Geographic NewsWatch, Jordan Schaul reports on the effect of wood bison on its environment. "Wood bison will balance an ecosystem which has been inappropriately manipulated by people for hundreds of years".

Read the full article here.

Wisent: current stage and its future

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:48:26 +0200

Recently LHNet’s Bison-experts received a request to fill in a questionnaire about the actual situation of the European bison / Wisent and the challenges for its future.
From July until December an internship project concerning the wisent is being carried out. Yannick Exalto studies Wildlife Management (Bs) at the University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein, the Netherlands.

The title of his project is: ‘Current status of the European bison (Bison bonasus) and future prospects in Pan-Europe’. Read more…

New project for LHNet: Conservation and restoration of wild reindeer populations

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:20:20 +0100

Together with the Russian Academy of Sciences, LHNet started to work on a preparation project, financed by the WNF INNO fund for international nature conservation activities. The wild reindeer populations of the Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District in Russia are under increasing pressure from oil and gas exploitation. The aim of the project as a whole is to identify conflicts between reindeer and the oil and gas industry and eventually to define management measures which will reduce and, where possible, avoid conflicts.

The outcome of the project will be the conservation of critical habitats and calving grounds, and preservation of migration routes of wild reindeer. It will also consider the interests of the indigenous communities of reindeer herders, who are to some extent in conflict with wild reindeer, which compete with domestic reindeer for pasture. It is hoped that the project will demonstrate that cooperation between conservationists and industry can contribute to improving the status of threatened wildlife in the Russian Arctic region.

For more information, visit the project’s web page.