News and Press Releases from Large Herbivore Foundation
Re-introducing Wood Bison
Re-introducing Wood Bison on the territory of Yakutia, Eastern Siberia
It is known that in the 7th to 10th centuries AD Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae) still occurred in the Cis-Baikal and Altai regions. And the radiocarbon data indicate that 3,000 years ago Bison was still abundant in the north-eastern Siberia. The zoologist K.K. Flerov believes that exactly those bison had been identical to the Wood Bison that currently occur in Canada.
Towards a wilder Europe
In "Towards a Wilder Europe" one can read all about Developing an action agenda for wilderness and large natural habitat areas.
There are few truly wild areas remaining in our highly developed continent, yet they represent an invaluable part of Europe’s natural heritage. In addition to their intrinsic spiritual and landscape qualities, and their important contribution to biodiversity conservation, such areas can offer significant economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits to local communities, landholders and society in general.
The LARGE HERBIVORES, Eurasian Support Network: towards a renewed in-situ and ex-situ cooperation
On the 1st of July 2010 the Large Herbivore Foundation (LHF) joined the ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation.
Zoltan Kun appointed as Focal Point for the Wilderness Specialist Group in Pan-Europe
20 May 2010
PAN Parks Director, Zoltan Kun, has been appointed Focal Point for the Wilderness Specialist Group in Pan-Europe. The Group aims to promote dialogue on wilderness in the international conservation community and thus the Focal Point will play a role in ensuring European wilderness issues are on the global agenda and liasing with professionals interested in wilderness.
Bison heading for Bornholm, Denmark
A forest stroll in the forest Almindingen on the Danish island Bornholm may in the future offer the sighting of a herd of grazing bison. This may be the result if the pilot study launched by the Ministry of Environment gives green light for getting the largest land animal of our continent, the European bison, back in free range on Danish ground.
The Whitley Award for Russia’s Vadim Kirilyuk - Mongolian gazelle
Princess presents top conservation accolade to Russia’s Vadim Kirilyuk
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Animals of the ecocenter “Djeyran” need help
The Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Small Grants Programme published the following alarming message.
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Bisons back in Spain, Iberia Nature
Seven wild European bison (bisonte in Spanish) have been released into a 20 hectare enclosure in Palencia as part of a long-term plan to possibly reintroduce the animal to the Iberian Peninsula after an absence of 900 years. Bisons were once common in the deciduous and pine forests of northern Spain as is shown by the wonderful cave paintings of Altamira, and they probably survived in Navarra until the 12th century when they were hunted to extinction. It is also speculated that bison undertook winter migrations from the north to the south of Spain, and that the ancient transhumance sheep paths followed these routes, though other studies suggest the bison was only ever present in the north.
12,000 critically endangered Saiga antelope found dead in Kazakhstan
Mass mortality among Saigas in Kazakhstan: 12,000 dead; the cause of the deaths is still unclear and under investigation.
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Panparks - new wilderness brochures
PAN Parks Foundation has recently published two professional publications about wilderness:
