ORF Universum Nature kicks off 2026 with international acclaim at Europe’s most highly endowed competition for nature documentaries, the European Wildlife Film Awards.

HAMBURG/VIENNA – The ORF Universum Nature documentary “Wildlife 2.0 – Adapting to a New World” has received yet another accolade, winning Best European Film in the Conservation category at the European Wildlife Film Awards. The awards ceremony was held on 7 February at the Wildlife Embassy’s Nature Film Cinema in Hamburg.

“These awards underline once again the international benchmark our ‘Universum’ brand continues to set. They reaffirm our mission to showcase European nature in all its diversity, captured with precision, visual excellence, and a deep understanding of a continent in constant flux”, says Gernot Lercher, Head of the ORF brand Universum Nature. 

Directed and produced by Patrick Centurioni in a co-production by ORF, ARTE GEIE, NDR in association with ORF-Enterprise, “Wildlife 2.0 – Adapting to a New World” continues its remarkable international festival success. Following its Golden Alpine Camera win at the Mountainfilm Festival 2024, the film now reaffirms its status as a standout exploration of how wildlife adapts to landscapes increasingly shaped by human influence. 

“Wildlife 2.0 – Adapting to a New World” offers a glimpse into a tamed wilderness, with a focus on rural habitats affected by human influence through agriculture, construction, and through climate protection structures. Within this technologized world, diverse wildlife coexists, each species adapting better or worse. The documentary highlights consciously directed corridors, green bridges ensuring safe genetic exchange, and conservation concepts for revitalizing valuable habitats along railway lines, wind farms, and solar installations.

The documentary is distributed worldwide by ORF-Enterprise.

Content Sales International (CSI) is the international content sales unit of ORF-Enterprise, the marketing subsidiary of the Austrian public service broadcasting corporation ORF. The team markets both ORF productions and works produced by independent production companies. The portfolio spans from documentaries, movies, series to kids programming and music. The award-winning ORF Universum documentaries and various popular original ORF Original drama series form the foundation of the colorful content catalog.

Content Sales International also acts as facilitator between the Austrian creative industry and international coproduction partners, hosts a Semi-Final round of Judging for the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (iEmmys®) and participates in a wide range of content markets including MIPCOM, Avant Première, Sunny Side of the Doc and Jackson Wild Summit. A music publishing service with its own label, along with the ORF-Musiclibrary, complement ORF-Enterprise’s activities in this segment.

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