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WWF: First ever Amazon of Europe Day kicked off with “Big Jumps” into Mura, Drava and Danube rivers on 14 July

Cross-border events in the transboundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube

Handing over the Manifest to protect Croatian Rivers to the Croatian Deputy Minister of Environment, Mr. Hrovje Dokoza, © by WWF
Handing over the Manifest to protect Croatian Rivers to the Croatian Deputy Minister of Environment, Mr. Hrovje Dokoza, © by WWF
Bad Radkersburg/Austria, Hrastje Mota/Slovenia, Legrad/ Croatia, Örtilos/Hungary, Sombor/Serbia – WWF in alliance with EuroNatur and many partner NGOs celebrated the first Amazon of Europe Day on 14 July 2013 with various events on the natural riverbanks of the Mura, Drava and Danube.
The three rivers span Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia and will become Europe’s largest cross-border protected area under the UNESCO flag.

“14 July is about the celebration of this amazing riverine landscape shared by five countries. It will also be an annual powerful reminder of Martin Schneider-Jacoby, who pioneered the international protection of the transboundary river system of ‘Europe’s Amazon’, and will encourage us what we can achieve when we work together”, WWF freshwater expert Arno Mohl said.

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Big Jump Mura-Drava confluence 2013, © by Tanja Nikowitz, WWF
Big Jump Mura-Drava confluence 2013, © by Tanja Nikowitz, WWF