European WILDLIFE

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 …

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 …

The number of endangered European bison 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 organization, the local organization of which Czech Landscape is a regional office of the international organization European Bison …

The number of marine areas where there is a lack of oxygen and most aquatic animals have no chance of survival are still on the rise. According to a new analysis published in the prestigious journal Science, there are four times more of them today than in 1950. Scientists warn that this can lead to the mass extinction of a variety of animal species.

While dead zones are caused by global warming in the open …

Two transports left the reserve for large herbivores in the former Milovice military training area outside of Prague. As of today, young wild horses began to settle in two more natural reserves. Of these, the first one is located on the outskirts of Hradec Kralove, while the other is set in the Josefov Meadows Bird Park managed by the Czech branch of BirdLife International.

Nine stallions went on their way instead of ten horses as …