Where does biodiversity protection end?
Biodiversity protection does not only mean working with wildlife, but also improving locals’ lives. The project ECO.Georgia by the GIZ showcases this.
Where does biodiversity protection end? Read More »
Biodiversity protection does not only mean working with wildlife, but also improving locals’ lives. The project ECO.Georgia by the GIZ showcases this.
Where does biodiversity protection end? Read More »
“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
Gender equality in forestry – a call for change Read More »
Fueled by the climate crisis, many spruce stands in European forests have suffered from bark beetle outbreaks in the last years. Why does this happen and how should we react to it?
Why do we see clear forest patches all around us? Read More »
Podyjí National Park is the smallest national park in the Czech Republic and forms a unit with the Thayatal National Park on the Lower Austrian side across the border, protecting unique habitats along a 40-km-long, deep, meandering valley carved by the Dyje river (Thaya in German). The Dyje river serves as a border river between
When the river connects and not divides Read More »
Among the threats to environmental security at international and national level, the issue of drinking water scarcity is a prominent one. We have recently accompanied a community-powered project in Germany that aims to tackle this problem at the root!
Planting trees to harvest drinking water Read More »