Best New Trips in the World: Tracking Wildlife in Slovakia

Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 18, 2009
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For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Slovakia. The world’s far corners are now well within reach.

SLOVAKIA: Tracking a Wild Pack

Thirteen years ago, British biologist Robin Rigg ventured into Slovakia’s Carpathian Mountains to study wolves, and he never left. During the course of his research, he has published multiple studies on the canids, founded the Slovakia Wolf Census Program, and, on several occasions, crept to within 15 feet of his carnivorous subjects. Now Rigg is looking to the Carpathians’ Tatra Range, whose 8,000-foot-plus peaks are host to what is becoming a serious hunting problem. “Hunters tend to greatly exaggerate the numbers of wolves and lynx,” says Rigg, “which leads to unjustified persecution.” His plan is to take stock of the wildlife with the help of Biosphere Expeditions, which will send travelers to Rigg’s outpost for the first time this winter.

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Comments

  1. Jai Pillai
    July 13, 2010, 10:14 pm

    Slovakia sounds like a nice place to observe the wild. Looks pretty cold though.

  2. Andrej S.
    December 15, 2010, 7:00 am

    Slovakia is a nice place not only in winter. Look at: http://www.slovakia.travel/intropage.aspx?l=2&smi=0&ami=0&p=99

  3. Tutoring Jobs Sydney
    October 3, 2011, 3:39 am

    Because WILD LIFE and HUMAN LIFE are so EQUAL!So if we are taking care of our self, as one life! its just the same fact we must learn to admit!. Wild life are most innocent living in this world, that they needed any kind of protection from human with the very good heart that understands what is the true meaning of life!!!

  4. Buy Furnace Franklin
    October 3, 2011, 6:55 am

    The Earth’s biodiversity supports human life and society. We depend on other organisms, at least to some degree, for virtually every element of our lives. Our food, our medicines, chemicals, a variety of building materials, and much of our clothing derive from living things. Even fossil fuels such as coal and oil, which supply most of the world’s power, are formed from organisms that lived millions of years ago. About 90 percent of all the calories that people consume are supplied by only about 100 kinds of plants, though there are tens of thousands of kinds of plants we might use as food. As the human population continues to grow, and as agricultural land becomes increasingly limited, the few species of plants that supply our food may no longer be sufficient. Soon people may need to look to other species to find food crops for the future. But by then, biodiversity may have diminished beyond hope.

  5. Philadelphia House
    February 3, 2012, 10:31 am

    Time to protect the wildlife, thanks for sharing this

  6. escort roma
    February 19, 2012, 6:06 am

    His plan is to take stock of the wildlife with the help of Biosphere Expeditions, which will send travelers to Rigg’s outpost for the first time this winter.

  7. וילות בתל אביב
    February 21, 2012, 11:31 am

    I usually significantly embellish the variety of baby wolves and lynx which causes unjustified persecution. My strategy is to take inventory of the creatures with the help of biosphere trips.