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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

River Drava is one of Europe’s treasure troves of biological diversity and part of the Hungarian Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube (TBR MDD). It is a hot spot of natural habitats, which are now rare in Europe, such as large and very well preserved floodplain forests, river ...