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Drava River, © by Arno Mohl

Danube Day 2015, 29 June: WWF calls for river restoration efforts in the “Amazon of Europe”

New Restoration Potential Study to set impulses for projects in the Mura-Drava-Danube Region

Vienna, Zagreb, Budapest, Belgrade, Ljubljana, June 28th, 2015 – The Danube and its tributaries, like the Drava and Mura, are Europe’s greatest river system with thousands of people and wildlife relying on them. Nevertheless, human interferences such as the channelling of natural river ...
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BioBlitz Logo, © by Institute for Nature Conservation Slovenia

BioBlitz - 24h with the Mura River

The 24-hour event called “BioBlitz” was organized by the Institute for Nature Conservation and the office of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with the Municipality of Veržej and took place in Veržej on June, 12th & 13th 2015. The motto of the event was 24 hours ...
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Confluence of Mura and Drava Rivers in the core zone of the future TBR MDD (HR, HU), © by Dubravko Lesar

Invitation: Balkan Rivers Days

RiverWatch and EuroNatur are inviting to the Balkan Rivers Days in Belgrade in September 2015: This free event is the first of its kind in Europe and will be a first get-together of people from river NGOs, local initiatives, and anti-dam movements, along with fishermen, boaters and other river ...
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Waterfall, © by Goran Safarek

Keep Nature Alive

European Network of nature protection areas under threat

Time to act Strong environmental laws are vital to protect nature within the EU. In the next few months EU citizens have the opportunity to participate online in a consultation process to ensure that these laws are not going to weakened or undermined in any way. The consultation process is now open ...
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Danube River, © by Boris Erg

Hungary’s National Parks – save after all?

As reported at the beginning of the month, Hungary has plans to take away more than 300,000 hectare of protected areas from National Parks’ management and transfer the management to the National Land Management Fund Organisation. However, Hungary’s president, János Áder, has not signed the ...
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