European WILDLIFE

Climate changes increasingly influence landscape development. Five extremely arid years in a row that reigned in Central Europe from 2015 have had an impact on the condition of wild nature and agricultural pastures.

Regular monitoring by scientists has proven that pastures where wild horses and other large ungulates graze in the former military area of Milovice, close to Prague, are in significantly better shape than a great deal of other areas in other parts of …

Central Europe now has a new reserve with European bison. This afternoon, conservationists transported three females of this endangered species from the former military area of Milovice. The animals travelled from the location close to Prague to the western part of the Czech Republic.

First of all, they were anaesthetised by a vet using a rifle. Then they were loaded into special crates. “The fact that the herd was located in dense vegetation and in …

It is almost certain that the last decade will be the warmest in recorded history. This is claimed in the annual report on climate by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which was published at the UN climate conference in Madrid. The report is yet more proof of the fact that global temperatures are increasing.

“Preliminary data shows that 2015-2019 and 2010-2019 will definitely be the warmest five and ten years, respectively, in recorded history,” the …

Scientists claim in a newly published study that by 2050, the rising surface of the oceans caused by climate change will endanger three times more people in the world than had been estimated originally. According to the research, more than 300 million people live in places that are at risk of suffering from annual floods within 30 years.

The original estimations were 80 million. The results of the study were published in Nature magazine by …

In comparison to worldwide average figures, the average temperature is growing 20 percent faster in the region around the Mediterranean Sea. Unless measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are adopted, 250 million people in the region will face droughts and lack of water within twenty years. This is the result of a study carried out by the Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology.

Scientists consider this study the first comprehensive …