Neither shower, nor cabbage soup, nor any other natural or artificial means of mitigating hangover could have served as a better refreshment for the persevering few than Mr Frantisek Urban’s lecture on the last working day of our camp. ’What was his secret recipe?’ you may like to know. Well, the ingredients I noticed were…
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Sumava : two speakers to be remembered !
For the participants of the Sumava summer camp, entitled “No forest, no Future”, Monday 4th August was crucial in developing their understanding of this national park. The previous day’s lecturer, Mr. Patrick Moldan, had highlighted the different approaches and attitudes taken to the Sumava National Park, and the political situation behind these attitudes. On Monday,…
My Sumava experience
We’d been travelling for about 3 hours on tiny, curvy roads in the middle of nowhere when the bus stopped. In spite of what everyone thought, it wasn’t because the old bus had given up on us, the reason it stopped was that we finally had gotten to Sumava. I was surprised when I saw…
No forest – No future
The Šumava 2003 project started in fact already in December 2002 at the annual FYEG meeting in Gent. The Czech Young Greens presented there their idea and seven other countries decided to join it. Then some countries withdrew but other joined. Thus at the preparation meeting in March 2003 in Prague met representatives of these…
Coleoptera: Scolytidae, several species
Over 600 beetles in the family Scolytidae are commonly referred to as bark beetles. Species identification is difficult because nearly all bark beetles are black or brown, cylindrical, hard- shelled, and between 1/8 and 1/3 inch long. Luckily, similarities in their life cycles and in the injury they cause usually make species determination unnecessary for…
Bark Beetles
Different people from different countries like Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Malta, Germany, Sweden, Ireland,… came together in the International Summer Camp in Sumava of the Czech Republic. There were experts that did there seminaries about forests problems, solutions, history,… this was very educative I learned at least a lot from this. The participating countries had a…
Sumava a heaven for hikers and bikers
When faced with the option of hiking or biking through the picturesque Sumava National Park, I took two main factors into consideration. Firstly, I felt hiking would provide the opportunity not only to familiarise myself with the countryside at a slower pace than biking, but also familiarise myself better with some of the members of…
Debts for nature
In pursuit of its goal Debts for Nature Campaign (www.deseurope.org) announced the contest of ecological projects of regional and global importance. Eventually selected projects would be used as lobbying arguments along the communication with creditors – world’s developed countries. To be well effective, we seek campaign’s country representatives in European States. Debts for Nature Campaign’s…