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WWF jubilates: Bird paradise Kopacki Rit saved

Croatian environment ministry stops regulation project of the Danube´s best preserved wetland

04, 2014

Zagreb, Vienna, April 7, 2014 - The Croatian Ministry of Environmental and Nature Protection has stopped one of the largest planned destructions of nature on the Danube River. A 53-kilometer long natural stretch of the Danube along the Croatian-Serbian border had been under huge pressure from the ...

Over 230 White-tailed Eagles and 100.000 other waterbirds counted in the floodplains of Mura, Drava and Danube

01, 2014

First international winter census along the whole Danube River: 750 White-tailed Eagle were spotted on January 12th by 300 counters!

01, 2014

Hainburg (Austria) serves as nodal point in South-East European White-tailed Eagle protection these days. The Symposium on January 12th at Kulturfabrik Hainburg, initiated by BirdLife, DANUBEPARKS and WWF, brought together international White-tailed Eagle experts and over 200 interested ...

Valuable Danube Floodplains of Serbia nominated for UNESCO designation

10, 2013

Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Ljubljana, Vienna – The Republic of Serbia has recently nominated its part of the territory of the future Five-country Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube” at UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Programme in Paris. The Serbian area corresponds to almost 20 per cent of ...

WWF’s “Amazon of Europe” initiative is European Riverprize finalist

09, 2013

Vienna, Austria - The WWF and EuroNatur initiative to establish a five-country UNESCO Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube“ across Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia has been recognized as a finalist for the 2013 European Riverprize of the International River Foundation. “Being ...

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