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  • Backwater of Latorica River with water Lilies, Nymphaea alba, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Seerosen, Nymphaea alba, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-100403.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with Nuphar luteum, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Gelben Teichrosen, Nuphar luteum, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-171818.jpg
  • Utricularia vulgaris, Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Wasserschlauch, Utricularia vulgaris, Latorica Altwasser, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-172505.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with Nuphar luteum, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Gelben Teichrosen, Nuphar luteum, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-182556.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with Nuphar luteum, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Gelben Teichrosen, Nuphar luteum, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-183817.jpg
  • Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus, Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Doldige Schwanenblume, Butomus umbellatus, Latorica Altwasser, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-183635.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with tapestry of Stratiotes aloides, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Krebsschere, Stratiotes aloides, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-09-101428.jpg
  • Yellow water-Lily, Nuphar luteum, Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Gelbe Teichrose, Nuphar luteum, Latorica Altwasser, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-09-171312.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with tapestry of Stratiotes aloides, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Krebsschere, Stratiotes aloides, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-09-175942.jpg
  • Pantherpilze, Amanita pantherina, im Buchenwald, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / mushrooms in Beech forest, Amanita pantherina, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080618160_Pantherpilz.jpg
  • Buchenwald, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / Beech forest, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080607134_Morske_Oko.jpg
  • Morske Oko, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / Morske Oko, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080607125_Morske_Oko.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with water Lilies, Nymphaea alba, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Seerosen, Nymphaea alba, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-095140.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with water Lilies, Nymphaea alba, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Seerosen, Nymphaea alba, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-095552.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with water Lilies, Nymphaea alba, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Seerosen, Nymphaea alba, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-100253.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with water Lilies, Nymphaea alba, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Seerosen, Nymphaea alba, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-100253_crop.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River with water Lilies, , Nymphaea alba, East-Slovakia, europe, Latorica Altwasser mit Seerosen, Nymphaea alba, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-100506.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser, Ost-Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-105355.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser, Ost-Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-105653.jpg
  • Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Latorica Altwasser, Ost-Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-03-110442.jpg
  • little frog and Water Lily, Nuphar luteum, Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Frosch und Gelbe Teichrose, Nuphar luteum, Latorica Altwasser, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-140129.jpg
  • Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus, Backwater of Latorica River, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, Doldige Schwanenblume, Butomus umbellatus, Latorica Altwasser, Slowakei, Europa
    KWO-2009-06-08-183421.jpg
  • Rotbuche im Wind, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / Beech in wind, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080612062_Buche_im_Wind.jpg
  • Buchenwald, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / Beech forest, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080612040_Buchenwald.jpg
  • Poloniny Nationalpark, Ost-Slowakei / Poloniny National park, East Slovakia
    KWO-080609223_Poloniny_Nationalpark.jpg
  • Buchenwald, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / Beech forest, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080607147_Buchenwald.jpg
  • Eurasian Brown Bear, Ursus arctos.Suomussalmi, Finland.Brown bear (Ursus arctos), FINLAND/MARTINSELKONEN, SUOMUSSALMI, KAINUU. Ten years ago, most Europeans who wanted to see bears, went to Alaska. Now they can instead go to Finland, Sweden or Romania, who all have large and growing bear populations, and ecotourism operators who will take you to see the bears from permanent hides. Bears were once found throughout the continent and even inhabited the British Isles until the 10th century. This is the same species as the North American Grizzly, and has made a remarkable comeback throughout much of Europe. Today, the European parts of Russia has by far the largest bear population (c 36,000), followed in order by Romania (6-7,000), Sweden (2,500) the Balkans (2,500-3,000) and Finland (1,000).
    SWD-2008-07-11-190415.jpg
  • Evening raft tour to see Beavers in the Peene valley. Nature tourism
    SZA-20140807_203210.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112944.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112843crop.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112838.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112354.jpg
  • Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112000.jpg
  • Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica SPAIN/PEÑA DE FRANCIA MONASTERY, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN The Iberian ibex are rare and shy all across the Sierra de Francia mountain chain, but suddenly, when you reach the lands of the Monastery of Peña de Francia, they are instead very numerous and very tame. Why is that? Because here they are not hunted. Which also means that what you see here is probably the normal, natural numbers of ibex, and that means hundreds. It also shows that wild animals quickly learn where they are not hunted and then can become much more relaxed in their relation with humans. Hunted to near-extinction, the Iberian ibex is now returning in strong numbers and slowly spreading, all due to strictly enforced protection measures. The ibex population in Spain has increased from fewer than 5,000 individuals in 1980, to an estimated 50–60,000 today. A major conservation success! The first Iberian ibex are now also returning to Portugal, where the local subspecies was wiped out as recently as the year 2000. Many areas in Portugal and Spain are still waiting for reintroductions to speed up that recovery – among them Rewilding Europe’s focus areas Sierra de Gata and Campanarios de Azába in Spain, together with Faia Brava and the Côa Valley in Portugal. The ibex was once one of the most important browsers and grazers all across Southern and Alpine Europe, living comfortably from sea level all the way up to the highest Alps, filling an ecological niche which for the last 5,000 years has been occupied by the domestic sheep. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2011-05-17-135821 outdoor.jpg
  • Broadleaved patch of forest (mixed species). Livansko Polje plain in the Caprazlije area. In the background the Staretina mountain: are being composed of karst - limestone rocks. At the summit it is possible to see several doline (A closed depression draining underground in karst, formed by solution and or collapse of underlying rock strata. Shape is variable, but often conical or bowl shaped. Definition from a geology glossary). Most probably, the water that flow into these doline feed the Livansko Polje field. Caprazlije area. Livansko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina.
    EDF-20090530-193426_41U1614.jpg
  • Trebizat River, a tributary of the Neretva River, photographed near the Kravice Falls. River (waterfall) foam or probably pollution? See also Raw file n 9528. Bosnia-Herzegovina. May 2009.<br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090521-064737_41U9589.jpg
  • Trebizat River, a tributary of the Neretva River, photographed near the Kravice Falls. River (waterfall) foam or probably pollution? See also Raw file n 9528. Bosnia-Herzegovina. May 2009.<br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090521-064713_41U9588.jpg
  • Knot, Calidris canutus, Dunlin, Calidris alpina, and other Waders<br />
Japsand, Wadden See, Wattenmeer Nationalpark, Unesco world Heritage Site, Germany
    LNO_20090423_0531.jpg
  • Evening raft tour to see Beavers in the Peene valley. Nature tourism
    SZA-20140807_193837.jpg
  • Evening raft tour to see Beavers in the Peene valley. Nature tourism
    SZA-20140807_193829.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112953.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112646 (1).jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112843.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112645.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-111320 (1).jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-110651crop.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-110925.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-110153.jpg
  • The six-spotted tiger beetle (Sandlaufkäfer) Cicindela hybrida,<br />
Wadden See, Wattenmeer National park, Germany<br />
Unesco World Heritage site
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  • Common cockle, Cerastoma edule and unidentified clam shells on sandy beach<br />
Japsand, Wattenmeer, Wadden See National park, Unesco World Heritage Site, Germany
    LNO_20090423_1933.jpg
  • Common cockle, Cerastoma edule and razor clam shells, Ensis americanus on sandy beach<br />
Japsand, Wattenmeer, Wadden See National park, Unesco World Heritage Site, Germany
    LNO_20090423_1929.jpg