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...
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...
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 yesterday to preserve the last world’s free-flowing rivers. The campaign aims to...
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...