lifelineMDD - Working together for protection and restoration of ecological connectivity in the TBR MDD

12, 2020

Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia – Despite many challenges set by the COVID 19 pandemic, the lifelineMDD project team managed to continue their work as planned. Although field activities such as fish sampling and live workshops were planned to happen this autumn, most of our work could ...

Natürliche Mur - Grenz- und Verbindungsfluss zwischen Slowenien-Kroatien-Croatia, © by Arno Mohl

WWF celebrates conservation succes: World’s first `5-Country Biosphere Reserve´ nominated

05, 2020

Decades of preparatory work pave the way for Europe’s largest river protected area: 930,000 hectares of natural treasures between Austria and Serbia nominated to UNESCO for protection – ‘Amazon of Europe’ becomes an international model region for nature conservation and sustainable regional ...

Sediment excavation at Drava, Petrijevci, © by Tibor Mikuška,HDZPP

Sand mining in the heart of the Amazon of Europe

Based on a flawed study, Croatian Ministry of Environment and Energy allowed the excavation of 460,000 m3 of sediment from the Drava River without an environmental impact assessment study or an appropriate assessment

04, 2020

Zagreb, Croatia – On March 26, 2020, the Ministry of Environment and Energy issued a permit to Croatian Waters for the excavation of 460,000 m3 of sediment from the Drava River near Osijek without an environmental impact assessment or an appropriate assessment study, citing the need to “reduce ...

World’s first ‘5-country biosphere reserve’ nominated

Paving the way for Europe’s largest river sanctuary – 930,000 hectares of natural treasures between Austria and Serbia nominated to UNESCO for protection – ‘Amazon of Europe’ becomes an international model region for nature conservation and sust

09, 2019

Vienna/ Zagreb/ Budapest/ Ljubljana/ Belgrade, 30th of September 2019 – Today, thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia submitted a historic UNESCO application to establish the first ‘5-country biosphere reserve’ in the world. With a ...

Involve public in river infrastructure projects