Reporting the European Wilderness register and indicator

The draft European Wilderness Register and spatial indicator have been reported in various magazines after it’s launch at WILD10. The work by Alterra (University of Wageningen), WRi and PAN Parks has been report in Geoconnexion (a GIS trade magazine) and Consumer Magazine (Spain). An article by Dr Carver is also due out shortly in the Geographical Association … Read more

Wild Nephin

Conference presentations for Wilderness in a Modified European Landscape now available. The conference was held in Westport, County Mayo, on 14th May – 16th May 2013 during Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.  The aim was to bring together current and possible future approaches to rewilding modified landscapes, particularly on former plantation forest … Read more

Wild Ennerdale Meeting

WRi attended the  Wild Ennerdale 10th Anniversary meeting 25-27 June 2013, famously walking in to the Ennerdale Valley from Seathwaite, spending the night next to Innominate Tarn near Haystacks: See our Flickr pages for photos and video.

WILD10… WRi plays a key role.

The Wildland Research Institute played a key role in WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), which was held in Salamanca, Spain, between 4-10 October.  Entitled  “Make the World a Wilder Place”,  WRi gave two plenary talks, launched a new, draft Vision for a wilder Europe, wrote/contributed to 5 congress resolutions, moderated 6 sessions, delivered upwards of 10 papers… … Read more

WRi interviewed on BBC

Steve Carver made an appearance on BBC Breakfast TV today. He was being interviewed as a follow up to the publishing of the Wildlife Comeback report and questioned as to its implications for the wildlife conservation in the UK.

Wildlife Comeback report published

A long awaited report on the improved fortunes of selected mammals and birds across Europe has finally been published. The report “Wildlife Comeback in Europe: the recovery of selected mammal and bird species” written by the Zoological Society of London, BirdLife International and European Bird Census Council and commissioned by Rewilding Europe shows how some … Read more

EU Wilderness Guidelines published

The  Guidelines on Wilderness within the EU’s Natura2000 have been published on the Natura2000 web pages: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/wilderness/pdf/WildernessGuidelines.pdf The report by Alterra (Wageningen University) and PAN Parks arises from recommendations from the EP Resolution on Wilderness (Feb 2009) and cites WRi report Fisher et al. (2010) extensively as its evidence.

National parks in England and Wales should not be protected as “wildernesses”

Nick Boles, the UK government planning minister has spoken in a debate in parliament on planning rules and suggested we should not be protected national parks as “wildernesses”. If only they were! National parks in England and Wales (as well as those in Scotland) are classified as Category V under IUCN’s  classification of protected areas, … Read more

WILD10… 3 weeks and counting

Less than 3 weeks to go to WILD10! WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), will convene this October in Spain to “Make the World a Wilder Place.” Involving up to 1200 delegates from over 50 nations, with an estimated 30,000 on-line, WILD10 is focused on state-of-the-art information, inspiration, and practical, positive results in policy, protected … Read more

RSPB publishes “State of Nature” report

The RSPB has published the eagerly awaited “State of Nature” report. This brings together 25 wildlife organisations to compile a stock take of all our native wildlife in the UK. The report reveals that 60 per cent of the species studied have declined over recent decades. More than one in ten of all the species assessed are under … Read more