European Wilderness Quality Standards and Audit System

In 2014, European Wilderness Society presented the European Wilderness Quality Standards and Audit System. We are aiming to designate more Wilderness which can meet the Wilderness Quality Standards. According to the Quality Standards definition, Wilderness are composed of native habitats and species, and large enough for the effective ecological functioning of natural processes. They are unmodified or only slightly modified and without intrusive or extractive human activity, settlements, infrastructure or visual disturbance.

The Wilderness continuum (developed by Prof. Roderick Nash 1993) as a basis for the European Wilderness Quality Standard and Audit System.

In nowadays, humans are willing to modify and manage nature claiming to save it.