European WILDLIFE

The first young of the Golden Eagle after more than one hundred years was born in the Czech Republic in the past days. It came into the world in the woods of military training area Libava in the east part of the country. Both parents of the young come from Slovakia where there lives a stable population of the Golden Eagle.

In the Czech Republic the Golden Eagle was totally exterminated in 1926. Its return …

For three tens of years there have been used large herbivores for cheap maintenance of blooming meadows and pastures in the Netherlands. That is why it was just in this country where there were gaining experience the experts from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic who cooperate on the project of the large herbivores return with conservation organisation European Wildlife.

The experts had a unique opportunity to compare the results which are reached …

Global warming poses an existential threat to one third of animal species and to a half of plant species. The Earth may lose fifty thousand species even in this century unless the governments change quickly their attitude and begin fast to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.

This warning was introduced by scientists from Great Britain, Australia and Colombia in a report published in specialist magazine Nature Climate Change. Among the most endangered animal groups there belong …

Yesterday Germany became another European country where there occurs the wisent population living freely. The biggest terrestrial mammal of the old continent was released into the nature yesterday in the mountains Rothaargebirge in a federative country of North Rhine-Westphalia. The locality is situated in the western part of the country, about two hundred kilometres far from the borders with the Netherlands. The wisents were released into the nature by German conservationists.

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Fresh snow and temperatures below zero. The first spring days in many European countries look like that. The unusually cold beginning of spring is, in fact, one of the consequences of climate changes according to climatologists.

Although global temperatures have been growing for over a long period, weather oscillations can cause, according to scientists, cooling down in some parts of the world. As it has been happening in Europe recently. The cause are the dramatic …