Zagreb, Croatia – A petition to save the Danube’s most valuable and best preserved natural river stretch is being launched today in an effort to stop a major project that would ignore both EU law and international environmental standards in Croatia. The Croatian Water Management Authorities are ...

Arno Mohl has been a WWF Freshwater expert since 2000. Rivers have accompanied his professional life for a long time. When I was a little boy, I spent some wonderful days on the banks of the Drava River by Klagenfurt. Before this stretch of the river became a chain of reservoirs, I chased lizards ...

International Conference: WWF and Partners take action to preserve the Unique Lifelines of the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers Budapest, Vienna, October 28th, 2011 – More than 50 delegates of Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia are currently attending an international conference in ...

EU Commission to closely monitor Croatia’s channelling plans of 500 km of natural rivers in protected areas Brussels/ Zagreb - On the eve of putting its signature under the EU Accession treaty tomorrow WWF warns that Croatia’s river channelling plans are already breaching EU environmental law ...

Batina, Croatia – More than 40 rowers and paddlers from Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia came together this weekend at the small Croatian village of Batina, close to the Croatian-Serbian border. Rowing in a regatta on the Danube on Sunday, they demonstrated against the destruction of two of ...