Nature Unites: Peace and Conservation in the Former Death Zone – the European Green Belt
The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
The European Green Belt is a pan-European project to protect the environment and consolidate peace along the former Iron Curtain throughout Europe.
Established in 1914, the Swiss National Park was one of Europe’s very first national parks. Scientific research became its hallmark and it became an important model for the establishment of protected areas around the world.
The Triglav National Park in the Julian Alps is a sanctuary for alpine flora and fauna; it is also important for the national narratives of the young Republic of Slovenia. Conflicts over land use and preservation reach back to the times of the Yugoslav monarchy.
History of the primeval forest Urwald Rothwald and how it survived through time.
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
This article looks afresh at the environmental history of Russia by starting from the perspective of some bears in Siberia.
Rya Forest is a nature reserve in Gothenburg, Sweden, and historically an area of both appreciation and conflict.
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create new “natural” areas along the shore.
The Korgalzhyn nature reserve is a blue-green oasis of protected nature in the heart of the semi-arid Kazakh steppe.