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

2017 - 05 - 09
The first young wisent this year was born today in a 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 …

The first young wisent this year was born today in a nature reserve; male Polanin has become a father for the first time
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Last year, a census showed there were over ninety European bison in the Czech Republic

2017 - 04 - 07
Last year, a census showed there were over ninety European bison in the Czech Republic

European bison numbers are on the rise in the Czech Republic. At the end of last year, there were 93 animals in the country, as the results of the second national census of these animals endangered throughout Europe indicate. In 2015, over seventy animals were kept in this country.

“The growth in numbers has been facilitated not only through successful breeding of the species in a large portion of domestic institutions, but also through the …

Last year, a census showed there were over ninety European bison in the Czech Republic
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Scientists do not believe their own eyes. A total of 42 percent of Czech butterfly species were counted on a small grazing area. Thanks to wild horses

2017 - 03 - 16
Scientists do not believe their own eyes. A total of 42 percent of Czech butterfly species were counted on a small grazing area. Thanks to wild horses

The results of a census of butterflies from a wild horse pasture in the former Milovice military training area outside Prague have taken scientists’ breath away. In two years, the hoofed mammals managed to create a site with a high degree of species diversity, referred to as a “hotspot”. An analysis of the butterfly monitoring results was completed by experts in recent days.

“In 2016, we recorded 59 species of diurnal butterflies in the pasture …

Scientists do not believe their own eyes. A total of 42 percent of Czech butterfly species were counted on a small grazing area. Thanks to wild horses
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Climate change is altering the North Pole. Instead of minus 30 degrees, the temperature is above zero in the Arctic regions

2017 - 02 - 08
Climate change is altering the North Pole. Instead of minus 30 degrees, the temperature is above zero in the Arctic regions

Climate change is becoming increasingly evident in the Arctic regions. The recent strong storm brought masses of warm air over Greenland as far as the North Pole, where it is now 30 degrees warmer than usual as sea ice melts locally due to the warming.

During the storm, the wind was about 140 kilometres per hour, lifting waves at sea over 16 meters high. Consequently, the temperature around the North Pole reached over the past …

Climate change is altering the North Pole. Instead of minus 30 degrees, the temperature is above zero in the Arctic regions
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Even intense frost does not matter to large herbivores in a reserve; they can find a variety of food in the grazing area

2017 - 01 - 20
Even intense frost does not matter to large herbivores in a reserve; they can find a variety of food in the grazing area

Although temperatures at night recorded in a large herbivore reserve located in the former military training area of Milovice near Prague have fallen to minus 20 degrees Celsius in recent days, herds of wild horses, European bison and aurochs produced through a back-breeding programme do not mind cruel frosts. They find sufficient food in the pasture land, be it in the form of dry grass under snow that they can dig out or branches, twigs …

Even intense frost does not matter to large herbivores in a reserve; they can find a variety of food in the grazing area
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