Wood grouse courting songs are being logged in forests run by JSC “Latvia’s State Forest”.

Last week in Slītere National Park the animal of the year 2012 – Smooth snake Coronella austriaca has been waken up. Here is the largest known deposit of this species in Latvia.

Osoon in the Estonian TV, ETV, is well worth watching. Grain was spread on the observation ground. How else would the brown bear know to come?

The grey geese are the only geese that nest in Estonia. The passing migrants move along the western shores, stopping in the shore areas. Only few birds arrive in the interior parts of the mainland with flocks of bean geese.

Last weekend I didn’t have the time to go on birding trips. Instead I ended up in Setomaa on the joint winter days of fraternities Amicitia and Ugala.

On the afternoon of February 28, Zebrus Lake was shrouded in a white snow cloud. A piercing wind was creeping in under the collar, but this is no obstacle for a true fisherman.

The bird migration map has just started its spring season and found its first migrant – black stork Pirsu:

The European Commission last week opened a consultation on whether land-based activity, the LULUCF sector in Kyoto Protocol jargon, should be included in the EU’s 2020 emissions reduction effort. Currently LULUCF is not included in EU emissions accounting and human-related greenhouse emissions and emissions reduction activity does not count towards its Kyoto targets. Yet latest [...]

On Monday the Norwegian Government Pension Fund sold its 16 million shares, worth around US$1.2m, in response to what it said was Samling’s “systematic illegal logging” in six concessions in Sarawak. The fund’s investigation found “extensive and repeated breaches of the licence requirements, regulations and other directives in all of the six concession areas examined. [...]

Concessions areas will be monitored jointly by the Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and the Chico MendesInstitute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), both federal government agencies. The Forest Service has also developed a system to trace log transportation from theforest to the first log-processing site. The forest concession monitoring is based on [...]

According to national and regional surveys, it is common belief that forests are disappearing and using wood is a threat to forest health. But the opposite is in fact the case.   Forests now cover more than 44 per cent of Europe’s land area. And in the last 15 years, in the pan-European forests grew [...]

            Surely many of us have thought why do we need different limitations in forest management, what is the use of them? Why do we have to save the White-backed woodpecker and what good can Laphria gibbosa do for us? We will try to give answers to these and many other questions about wildlife protection [...]