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BIG JUMP 2017

BIG JUMP into the Mura

9th of July 2017

With the BIG JUMP we celebrate the great value and beauty of natural and intact rivers in Europe. This year we will come together on Sunday, 9th of July 2017 at Austrian-Slovenian border to point out the importance of protecting our rivers and to celebrate the Amazon of Europe Day. The highlight of ...
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Gornje Podunavlje, © by Kovacs

Restoring life to the Danube

Important habitats in the Gornje Podunavlje Reserve get new life

Belgrade – WWF and the Coca-Cola system have been cooperating to restore wetlands and floodplains in the Special Nature Reserve “Gornje Podunavlje” for six years now. So far, the habitat restoration has resulted in establishing all environmental functions of the Semenjaca and Sarkanj ponds as ...
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Gornje Podunavje, © by Jaroslav Pap

Bačko Podunavlje is the new UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Serbia

Part of the „European Amazon“

Belgrade, 14.06.2017. – WWF welcomes the decision of the International coordination council of the UNESCO „Man and Biosphere“ program to include the the Backo Podunavlje biosphere reserve into their World List of Biosphere Reserves, at their Paris session today. Backo Podunavlje reserve is at ...
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Excursion to Austrian restoration site at Danube, © by Goran Safarek

Austria shares 20 years of river restoration experience

Drava LIFE excursion to Austria’s restoration sites

Riverine ecosystems are amongst the most endangered ecosystems in Europe and the Drava River is no exception. As many as 22 hydropower plants in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia crosscut the Drava and left only a short free-flowing stretch of the river in Croatia. The aim of the “DRAVA LIFE Project ...
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Film evening, © by Tomaž Majerič / WWF

Mura film evening

Friends of the Mura from four different countries make a pledge to fight for the free flowing and living Mura River

WWF and NGO “Moja Mura” organized a film evening for more than 70 friends of the Mura River at the Castle in Murska Sobota. Two films were shown: “Descent on the Mura” by Boris Kočevar which showed the extraordinary natural resources of the Mura; and “Resistance on the Danube” by ...
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