How long is a badger's sleep?
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Posted by the team of the Animal of the Year 23.12.2016
December 2016
Ancient holiday
Many linguists are of the opinion that the Estonian word jõul (roughly Yule) is borrowed from the ancient Scandinavian language around a thousand years ago. But there are those who think that we have to do with our own indigenous word.
From time to time. Christmas starts at the winter solstice and ends a few days after the new year. “Ajastaeg” is an old Estonian concept meaning year round. It expresses recognition of the world and awareness of the cycle of time and life and more broadly the oneness of world and being.
How do the boars manage?
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Photo: Kristers Porietis
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 16.12.2016
The third year in the shadow of the African Swine Fever is ending and we ask Tõnis Korts, the executive director of the Estonian Hunters’ Society if there are boars in the forest and if there is some relief in the worries of hunters compared to last year. The main weight of pest control has after all fallen on the hunters.
Estonian forest management must become sustainable and made understandable to the public
Estonian Fund for Nature informs www.elfond.ee
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
Spruce forest, Elva River ancient valley
Estonian article published 09.12.2016
The environmental organisations and the researchers from the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences who met in Tartu on December 8 considered the current status of forest management and tried to find solutions that would improve the protection of Estonian forests. A joint statement underlined that Estonia must not pursue a forest policy that uses the wood resources at the expense of the future, is hostile to the climate and not transparent to the public. A proposal will be made to the Ministry of the Environment to take in account also the ecological and social values of forests besides the economic interests, and to involve the respective interest groups in this on an equal footing in creating a policy.
Bear asleep
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Photo: Vahur Sepp
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 17.12.2016
The badger is in its winter sleep, but what about the bears?
November started with snowfalls and minus degrees. Nature quickly took on a wintery aspect. At the same time the ground was unfrozen and under the snow there was even water in shallow spots.
A week in the woods. Raccoon dog caresses
Sisu
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 12.12.2016
Result of badger survey: slightly rising trend in population number
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Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 09.12.2016
This year the first badger monitoring in Estonia took place. It was an important enterprise with regard to the animal of the year. In the beginning of the year we did not know the status of the badger population. It could be guessed that badgers were not too badly off since they are observed here and there all the time, but nothing more precise than a conjecture could be stated until now. Since there is no great hunting interest in badgers data collected by hunters are not available either.
Capricious autumn left frogs out late
Sisu
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 07.12.2016
On the threshold of early winter let us glance at the autumn this year. The peculiarity of the 2016 autumn was the early snow. Already on October 25 the first snowmen appeared in Estonia. True, their life was not long..
A week in the woods: Wolves.
Sisu
The wolves are back at the Salumetsa sett. We see one in front of the camera, the pair of eyes of the second one gleam for a moment from the shadow of the forest.
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 06.12.2016
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