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Mura petition: hand-over of signatures, © by Stojanovic B.

77,000 votes for the Mura River without hydropower plants

Ljubljana – On the World Water Day, representatives of NGOs and local residents of Pomurje in Slovenia handed over the petition to the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, with 77,310 signatures against the construction of the hydropower plant Hrastje-Mota and for the natural river ...
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Drava, © by Goran Safarek

This Earth Hour you can sign the petition and help us save the Drava river

ZAGREB – The campaign against the construction of two new hydropower plants on Drava river in Croatia which WWF started earlier this year has been revived on the International day of Action for Rivers. WWF Adria launched the petition to save the Drava river from the new hydropower plans and urges ...
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Pohod ob Muri , © by Marjan Maučec

People from Pomurje demand a meeting with Prime Minister Cerar regarding the Mura hydropower plants

Murska Sobota - Association of Moja Mura, which works in the public interest in the field of nature conservation and the Museum of Madness, Trate, which works in the public interest in the field of culture, sent a request on 9th February to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia for a ...
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Free-flowing rivers campaign, © by WWF

Mura part of the WWF Global Free-flowing Rivers Campaign

Only a third of the world’s largest rivers remain free- flowing and need to be protected, among them is also the Slovenian Mura

Ljubljana - WWF International launched a campaign (https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/free-flowing-rivers?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=freshwater) yesterday to preserve the last world’s free-flowing rivers. The campaign aims to mobilize people all over the world ...
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Drava at Legrad, © by Goran Šafarek

World Wetlands Day warning: Planned hydropower projects could harm wildlife and local communities

80% of the Danube basin wetlands have been lost over the past 150 years

On the World Wetlands Day – 2 February – WWF warns that hydropower projects threaten to harm the habitats of rare and endangered species in the countries of the Danube basin. Some 80% of the wetlands of the Danube and its tributaries have already been lost over the past 150 years and with them ...
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