The expedition was the start of a growing movement to protect the wild area from development.
Mr. THISSE: It's still a very wild area, but now there's a huge wind tower sticking up.
In 1993 they established the Oasi Zegna, a 100-square-kilometre (40-square-mile) reserve of meadows and forest that pushes towards Monte Rosa, Europe's second highest peak, into an empty, wild area crossed by a few trails.
Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service (HIFRS) said the majority of wild fires in its area were now out.
The logging of the oaks and pines removes the food supply on which the area's wild boars depend.
He is expected to be released back into the wild in the north Wales area where he was found by spring 2005.
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The workers needed a stable food supply, and the area was rich in wild species like aurochs and einkorn, one of the ancestors of domesticated wheat.
Juwi said it had made efforts to consult households, adding it planned to screen the site, plant wild flower meadows and graze sheep in the area.
"The polar bear does not have a small wild population, it does not have a restricted area of distribution and no marked decline has been observed, " Environment Canada says on its website.
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The area first became known to Europeans when Joseph Wild, James Vaughan and Charles Throsby Smith discovered the Limestone Plains upon which modern-day Canberra is sited.
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Just as iconic a symbol of the area is the hardy population of 150 or so wild horses, who have adapted to be able to go without water for longer periods than domestic horses, surviving for generations on the desert's fringe.
Despite being a commercial forest that is sustainably logged for wood, the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Sabah, which is an area of approximately 550km square kilometres, holds all five wild Bornean cat species.
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This makes for spectacular and guaranteed crane viewing, but also means that ongoing projects, including clearing vegetation off the sandbars with heavy machinery each year, are needed to protect this last stretch of habitat, not just for sandhill cranes but also for the endangered whooping cranes who migrate through the area around the same time, and of which there are only 300 left in the wild.
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