“More women than usual on this course. Good. We need them to file and sort papers”. This is what one of the instructors of Barbara Öllerer, a graduate forester and now PhD student, told the group of Austrian forestry students on a chainsaw course. Remarks like this are common among foresters. Only when she started […]
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The Danube is a special river – for biodiversity, humans and for both of us. It connects our home countries Germany and Slovakia plus eight other countries, more than any other river in the world. It’s the biggest river in Europe outside of Russia and 80 million live in its basin spread out in over
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Thayatal National Park gives space to Wilderness and protects the Thaya valley at the Austrian-Czech border in cooperation with Podyji National Park.
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