PAN Parks welcomes the declaration of the International Year of Biodiversity as we also look to the opportunities triggered by natural succession and ecosystem dynamics to protect global biodiversity. In PAN Parks Wilderness areas, the priority is protecting ecosystem dynamics and supporting the protection of biodiversity - ecosystem dynamics link.
Many examples of this could be provided so a page on our website will be devoted to providing a collection of case studies, interviews, articles on the relation of wilderness and biodiversity and the PAN Parks efforts to protect biodiversity through wilderness protection.
Nordens Ark is a non-profit foundation aiming to provide self-sustainable viable populations of threatened species through conservation breeding and reintroduction programs. Nordens Ark is part of a scientific society with close contacts to universities and with a professor in conservation biology as the scientific leader. Nordens Ark has successfully taken part in breeding and reintroduction programs for, among others, the White-backed woodpecker, the Peregrine falcon, the Lesser white-fronted goose, the Green toad and the Fire-bellied toad.