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TEDxBratislava - Tomáš Vančura - Why people need wilderness

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2010 · Science & Technology

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Forest warden, ecologist, awarded with Panda Awards for nature protection

The former director of TANAP -- High Tatras National Park. He comes from a family where forest wardening is inherited from generation to generation. After his work as the director of TANAP ended he went to study to USA where he learned more about the work of national park rangers and researchers in Florida. At present he is back in Slovakia. He is the only Slovak who has been awarded prestigious global Panda Award for nature protection in 2006. He is going tell us why it is so important for people to maintain wilderness.


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