2019 Year of Wilderness 1964 - 55 years ago Wilderness in US The United States was the first country to officially designate land as “Wilderness” through the Wilderness Act of 1964. This was to protect the most pristine and wildest of America’s land for future generations.
2009 - 10 years ago Wilderness in Europe For many years in Europe, Wilderness was associated with far-flung, exotic locations like the Amazon or Yosemite. It took many years for Europeans to realise that there was Wilderness in Europe and it needed our protection. In 2009, European Parliament passed the Wilderness Resolution. Europe now had a Wilderness definition and a plan to protect Wilderness.
2014 - 5 years ago A Wild Idea! Fastforward five years, and people from all across the
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globe gathered at the 10th World Wilderness Congress
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to build on the Wilderness Resolution of Europe. There
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were many wild conversations, and this sparked the
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origin of the European Wilderness Society and the
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European Wilderness Network... ... For the last five years, the European Wilderness Network has been growing to connect Wilderness all across Europe, from the Mediterranean up to the Arctic Circle, from the Atlantic coast to the Ural Mountains.
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