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  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Horse, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Iberian Ibex, Capra pyrenaica, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Iberian Ibex, Capra pyrenaica, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
    SWD-2011-05-18-231846.jpg
  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
    SWD-2011-05-18-225426.jpg
  • Rock carvings, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Horse, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Iberian Ibex, Capra pyrenaica, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
    SWD-2011-05-13-165153.jpg
  • Rock carvings, Iberian Ibex, Capra pyrenaica, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
    SWD-2011-05-13-163253_1.jpg
  • Rock carvings, Iberian Ibex, Capra pyrenaica, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
    SWD-2011-05-13-174140.jpg
  • Rock carvings, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • Rock carvings, Aurochs, Bos primigenius, Côa valley Archaeological park,<br />
Portugal
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  • RYSI KAMEN. THE LYNX STONE. <br />
CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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  • RYSI KAMEN. THE LYNX STONE. <br />
CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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  • RYSI KAMEN. THE LYNX STONE. <br />
CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
    JBR-2008-09-22_13I2637.jpg
  • RYSI KAMEN. THE LYNX STONE. <br />
CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
    JBR-2008-09-22_13I2633.jpg
  • RYSI KAMEN. THE LYNX STONE. <br />
CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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  • ENGRAVING. SILVER MOUNTAINS. STRIBRNE STENY, 459 m. HRENSKO. CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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  • MOON ENGRAVING. SILVER MOUNTAINS. 1500 AC. STRIBRNE STENY, 459 m. HRENSKO. CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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  • ENGRAVING. SILVER MOUNTAINS. STRIBRNE STENY, 459 m. HRENSKO. CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
    JBR-2008-11-10_13I4165.jpg
  • MOON ENGRAVING. SILVER MOUNTAINS. 1500 AC. STRIBRNE STENY, 459 m. HRENSKO. CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
    JBR-2008-11-10_13I4163.jpg
  • MOON ENGRAVING. SILVER MOUNTAINS. 1500 AC. STRIBRNE STENY, 459 m. HRENSKO. CESKE SVYCARSKO. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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  • Cork oak mosaique landscape PORTUGAL/FAIA BRAVA NATURE RESERVE, CÔA VALLEY, DOURO The Faia Brava reserve is part of the greater Côa valley and one of the wildest areas in Portugal. Here the traditional small-scale agriculture and shepherd life is rapidly disappearing and lands are becoming abandoned. In 2011, Portugal had some 2 million hectares of abandoned farmland, and across the EU each year another million hectares of low-yield farm and pasture lands are being abandoned. This has many reasons, but mainly it seems to be because young Europeans simply don’t want to be goatherds, shepherds or subsistence farmers any more, instead preferring the more comfortable life in a town or a city. The old farm and pasture lands now rapidly turn into dense bush, and a lot of species disappear that are connected to the open landscapes. The risk for devastating forest fires also increases a lot with much more dry bush matter available in the landscape. The Rewilding Europe initiative is about trying to turn these problems into opportunities instead. Can we use nature in new ways, that might be even more respectful to nature itself and at the same time more profitable for man? Especially since several of the traditional ways most obviously are not working anymore in quite large areas of Europe. The Faia Brava nature reserve is part of the Rewilding Europe initiative and it is owned and run by Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN). The Côa valley is the largest outdoor rock carving site in Europe, with carvings dating from 35,000 years ago up to present. The main theme of these carvings is very clear: aurochs, wild horses, ibex and red deer. All of them extinct today in the area, but also all on the list for reintroduction through the Rewilding Europe initiative. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
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  • Bugling red deer stag, Cervus elaphus, DENMARK/KLAMPENBORG, COPENHAGEN, The red deer is the most emblematic of all European animals. It is depicted in countless cave paintings, rock carvings, and in the coats-of-arms of noblemen, towns, regions and businesses. It lives in habitats from treeless moorlands to semi-deserts, but was hunted to, and in some areas over the verge of extinction. During the 1800s the red deer survived in many countries only in large royal hunting grounds, like the one where this photo was taken. It is now coming back in numbers, thanks to reintroductions and better hunting regulations.
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  • Spanish fighting bull Bos primigenius taurus SPAIN/CIUDAD RODRIGO, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN The Eurasian aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) is the ancestor of every cow and bull on our planet today, but it was unfortunately hunted to extinction in 1627, when the last one died in Poland. The Aurochs were the heaviest land mammals of our continent, and they used to move around in herds, possibly of up to thousands of animals, a bit like the African buffaloes still do today in parts of Africa. Several cattle breeds in Europe still have quite a lot of genes remaining from the Aurochs, which makes them look similar to the Aurochs pictured by artists 15-20,000 years ago in the cave paintings from the Lascaux caves in France, the Altamira caves in Spain, and the rock carvings from the Coa valley in Portugal. The Aurochs bull was dark with a whitish muzzle, often with a brownish mantle, long, lyre-shaped, forward-pointing horns, a straight back and a distinct shoulder hump.The lack of grazing aurochs in the European wilderness ecosystems is one of the missing links of our natural heritage. Rewilding Europe therefore supports the ”Tauros Project” which has the aim to re-create the aurochs, using cattle races like the Maremmana, the Pajuna, the Podolica, the Sayaguesa and a few others, and then let it live like a wild species again. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
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  • Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), Klampenborg Dyrehave, Denmark. Fenced reserve enclosure.<br />
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Bugling red deer stag (Cervus elaphus), DENMARK/KLAMPENBORG, COPENHAGEN. The red deer is the most emblematic of all European animals. It is depicted in countless cave paintings, rock carvings, and in the coats-of-arms of noblemen, towns, regions and businesses. It lives in many habitats from treeless moorlands to semi-desert, but was hunted to, and in some areas over the verge of extinction. During the 1800s and 1900s the red deer survived in many countries only in large royal hunting grounds, like the one where this photo was taken. It is now coming back in great numbers, thanks to reintroductions and more sensible hunting regulations. During the fall mating season, also known as “the rut”, the red deer stags use a brawling call to advertise their territory and attract the females.
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  • Holes carved by nature in limestone rock, National Park Piatra Craiului, Transylvania, Southern Carpathians, Romania
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  • Holes carved by nature in limestone rock, National Park Piatra Craiului, Transylvania, Southern Carpathians, Romania
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  • Holes carved by nature in limestone rock, National Park Piatra Craiului, Transylvania, Southern Carpathians, Romania
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  • Right opposite of the town of Dalyan there are the famous Lycian rock tombs, that have been carved into the solid rocks 3000 to 4000 years ago.
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  • Right opposite of the town of Dalyan there are the famous Lycian rock tombs, that have been carved into the solid rocks 3000 to 4000 years ago.
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