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Newsletter Spring 2012
Dear friends, a spring fresh version of the LHNet newsletter is now available.
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Wilderness Working Group meeting
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.
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Vote for funding EOCA
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.
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Bison and Biodiversity
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".
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New project for LHNet: Conservation and restoration of wild reindeer populations
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.
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Newsletter Christmas 2011
Dear LHNet followers!
Enjoy reading the Christmas newsletter 2011.
LHNet wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Where did the wild horse go
Wild horses have been an intricate part of the wildlife of Europe since hundreds of thousands of years. During historical times, wild horses have been described by contemporaries from the ancient period, until the 19th century.
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Expansion large mammal species?
In an article published on Discovery News, Jennifer Viegas reports on scientists' prediction that it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within the next five years. They are currently analysing the marrow from a mammoth thigh bone found in the Siberian permafrost. Cloning mammoths will no doubt raise many questions.
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Where are stable 50-year-old landscapes with patches and long, wide corridors?
Do conservation corridors work? Examples sought in Europe.
Dr. Paul Beier and Dr. Andrew J. Gregory of the School of Forestry and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.A. initiated a study to determine if conservation corridors work. The goal of their study is to measure the ability of long, wide corridors to promote gene flow and long-term patch occupancy among habitat blocks that are embedded in a human dominated (row crop ag, industrial forest, urban matrix).
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LHNet signed the joint statement to Secure the Future of CMS
Nineteen non-governmental organisations, incluciing LHNet, undersigned the Joint Statement directed to the participants of the 10th CMS Conference of the Parties, November 2011, Norway. The action was based based on a initiative of the Migratory Wildlife Network.
