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World’s first five country protected area to conserve “Europe’s Amazon”

Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia today signed a historic declaration to establish a trans-boundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve to protect their shared nature and wildlife along the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers, “Europe’s Amazon”. Read more
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Croatian plan to turn rivers into channels results in protests to EU

Zagreb, Croatia: Newly unveiled plans which would turn the Danube and Croatia’s other rivers into little more than regulated canals have been protested to the European Union by WWF, Croatian NGOs and EuroNatur. Read more
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WWF Urges Action To Save “Amazon of Europe”

Zagreb, Croatia – A WWF petition to save the Danube’s most valuable and best preserved natural river stretch is underway and despite support from close to 10,000 people more signatures are needed. Read more
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NGOs urge Minister to prevent the destruction of Europe’s best preserved wetlands and floodplain forests

Zagreb, Croatia - WWF, Green Action and the Croatian Society for Birds and Nature Protection today handed over a complaint to Davor Škrlec, Assistant Minister and a representative of Mirela Holy, Minister for Environment and Nature Protection asking her to immediately stop a project to channel the ...
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Mura-Drava-Danube Transboundary Biosphere Reserve hosts over 163.000 waterbirds

A total of 163.291 waterbirds was counted along Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and their floodplains during the recent International Waterfowl Count in January. Coalition of dozen NGOs from Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, with their bird- and river- watchers has performed an immense effort to ...
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