European WILDLIFE

As the climate changes, the risk of wildfires in the European landscape is increasing. Grazing large ungulates can be a cheap way to prevent these risks. Experts have pointed this out in the context of this year’s wave of fires in southern and central Europe.

“Progressive climate change towards drier and warmer weather and the current overgrowth of the landscape are creating a dangerous combination. The landscape is becoming more flammable due to prolonged drought …

The grazing of wild horses has helped one of the most endangered mammals of central Europe return to the Podyji National Park. The critically endangered European ground squirrel has settled in the park’s territory for the first time in fifty years.

The natural grazing of large ungulates again showed its potential for facilitating the return of endangered species to the countryside. Ground squirrels (or sousliks) came to the heaths that are part of the Podyjí …

Rare orchids are on the increase in several Central European sites thanks to the grazing of wild horses. This is indicated by the first results of botanical monitoring in natural monuments in eastern Bohemia as well as Podyji National Park near the border with Austria.

The early marsh-orchid began spreading in the pasture in the Baroch location even to places where it had not been found before the grazing started,” said David Číp, chairman of …

The founder of the European Wildlife conservation organisation, Dalibor Dostal, who was instrumental in the establishment of the large ungulate reserve in the former Milovice military training area, was featured in the TV series titled Green Hero.

The Green Hero project was created thanks to the collaboration with TV Nova, the biggest commercial TV station in the Czech Republic, and the local branch of Société Générale bank. The project aims to inspire the public to …

Two groups of back-bred aurochs arrived this morning from the Netherlands at the European Serengeti large herbivore nature reserve, which is located in the former Milovice military training area near Prague. The Dutch Taurus Foundation has selected two young bulls and four young cows to increase the genetic variability of the two herds already living in the nature reserve.

European Wildlife, the conservation organisation behind the large herbivore reserve, has been working with the Taurus …