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Croatian environment ministry stops regulation project of the Danube´s best preserved wetland

Zagreb, Vienna, April 7, 2014 – The Croatian Ministry of Environmental and Nature Protection has stopped one of the largest planned destructions of nature on the Danube River. A 53-kilometer long natural stretch of the Danube along the Croatian-Serbian border had been under huge pressure from the Croatian inland navigation agency to be regulated and channelized. As a result, the Kopacki Rit Nature Park in Croatia, an internationally renowned bird paradise, as well as Serbias most important Danube´s Nature Reserve „Gornje Podunavlje“, would have literally dried out. “Stopping this senseless destruction of one of the most valuable floodplains of the entire Danube is a major success for nature conservation in Europe,” says Arno Mohl of WWF.