PRALES

PRALES is a non-profit association based in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia working on nature & wildlife conservation, science & research.

PRALES is a Slovak civic association that works to conserve primeval forests and natural forests in Slovakia. It runs a website on forests, carries out and supports research on primeval forests, conducts advocacy for their protection, and raises public awareness of their value and importance, including environmental education. The association also contributed to the nationwide mapping of primeval forests and their remnants carried out in 2009–2015, and it asks experts and the public to report logging or other economic activity in identified primeval forest sites.