Spring has finally arrived in Europe and so have the first spoonbills (Platalea leucorodia) in the planned 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube (TBR MDD)! The first sights have been reported by Tibor Mikuska from the Croatian Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature on March, 25th ...

WWF is delighted to share good news from the Croatian Drava, namely that there will be no funding for nature-destroying hydropower dam projects by the European Fund for Strategic Investments. What happened? In January 2015, the Croatian government submitted a list of 75 projects to be considered ...

Another very challenging WWF project started in winter 2014/15 in the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube” (TBR MDD). It is trying to find evidence whether the ship sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventris), also called the “Phantom Sturgeon”, is actually extinct or whether there are ...

Great news from the WWF restocking project on the Danube in Bulgaria: on February, 18th 2015, small sterlets began to hatch on a farm in Montana, Bulgaria, which were bred for the WWF sturgeon restocking programme. The Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus), which can also be found in the planned ...

Sturgeons are an ancient migratory fish family which originated about 200 million years ago. The Danube River (especially in Romania and Bulgaria) preserves some of the most important sturgeon populations in the world. Within the planned Transboundary Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube” (TBR ...