Environmental group calls for tenfold increase in wild countryside in Czech Republic

The Czech branch of the environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth has put forward a proposal to give 3 percent of the territory of the Czech Republic over to wilderness. Currently around 0.3 percent of the country is occupied by untamed nature. Friends of the Earth say territory could be set aside as wilderness over several decades. The land would not be used for commercial purposes such as logging and would be a boon for tourists, they say. The group has been inspired by a German government initiative to make 2 percent of the country’s territory wild countryside.

Author: Ian Willoughby