European WILDLIFE

This year, scientists recorded a remarkably rich presence of bats in a large herbivore reserve and its closest surroundings at the former military training area of Milovice outside Prague. Since 2015, herds of wild horses, European bison and aurochs produced through a back-breeding programme have been living in the reserve.

As part of a large herbivore return scheme, systematic monitoring was conducted for the first time ever, targeting bats in a territory that so far …

Five European bison females arrived today at a large hoofed mammal reserve located in the former Milovice military training area near Prague. The animals were transported from the Białowieża National Park in the east of Poland, which boasts the world’s most famous stock of the species.

“We are happy that it is the animals from this national park that have expanded our reserve’s stock, as Białowieża Forest became the symbol of international conservation of the …

Swiss glaciers have extremely shrunk over the past year, with the loss of ice between the beginning of October last year and the end of September this year among the greatest in the past 100 years, according to the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences.

Two dozen monitored glaciers in the Alps confederation lost a total of three per cent of their volume, i.e., about 1.5 billion cubic metres. Scientists noted that melted water from the …

Mediterranean waters, increasingly warmer due to climate change and the expansion of the Suez Canal in 2015 both paved the way for the expansion of invasive jellyfish to Italian shores. The species known as Rhopilema nomadica under its scientific name is regarded as a great threat by the European Commission. Tourists in the south of Italy are afraid to swim in the sea because of these creatures.

As a result of global warming, the Italian …

This year, important species of herbs have appeared in a large herbivore reserve located in the former military training area of Milovice near Prague, which were either missing or very rare in the previous years. Biologists are particularly excited over thyme, grass pink, field cow-wheat and the strikingly yellow-flowering Irish fleabanes.

The main reason for establishing large herbivore grazing in the former training area was to restore diverse meadows featuring high numbers of plant species …