European WILDLIFE

Number of wisents in a nature reserve in a former military area has almost tripled in two years

Two and half years after the foundation of large herbivores reserve in a former military area in Milovice, not far from the capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague, the number of wisents has passed twenty individuals. Yesterday evening another two young animals were observed in the reserve for the first time. Currently the number of the wisents in the reserve has reached twenty-one individuals.

The number of animals has almost tripled since the reserve’s …

Wild horses are settling down in Podyji National Park, they came today from Exmoor, England

Two herds of wild horses from Exmoor in England have come today to Podyji National Park, close to the borders of the Czech Republic and Austria. The wild horses will help with the care of two unique localities in Podyjí National Park and protect them against aggressive kinds of grass and bush regrowth.

Eleven of the rare animals came in a special truck. “The wild horses are after the journey longer than 1,700 kilometres. We …

Wolf sighted in wisents and wild horses nature reserve. It was captured by a camera trap.

After big herbivores, beasts of prey have also appeared in the former military area of Milovice, not far from the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. Shots of a wolf were found by scientists while assessing records from camera traps situated in the pasture of wisents and wild horses.

The camera traps captured the wolf as it come to the pasture reserve, and also an hour and half later inside the reserve. Never before, or …

Number of wisents in the Czech Republic passes one hundred for the first time since the Middle Ages

The number of endangered European bisons (wisents) in Czech herds continues to grow. Last year their number passed the symbolic level of one hundred individuals for the first time in modern history. “Altogether one hundred and six wisents lived in Czech herds up to the last day of 2017,” specified Dalibor Dostal, the Director of European Wildlife conservation organisation, the local organisation of which Czech Landscape is a regional office of the international organisation European …

The first young wisent this year was born today in our nature reserve; male Polanin has become a father for the first time

The first of this year´s young wisent was born today in the large herbivore reserve in a former military area in Milovice, which is only 30 kilometres from the capital city of Prague.

“It was born this morning most probably – the female still had the placenta. The young is almost certainty a female,” stated Dalibor Dostal, the Director of the European Wildlife conservation organisation.

The new member has changed the herd’s behaviour. The male …