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WWF pushes for the establishment of Europe’s largest river protected area from Serbia to Austria
It is hoped that in 2011 the massive floodplain and wetland area along the Danube and its tributaries, the Drava and Mura Rivers, will become a trans-bondary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It will begin on the Serbian stretch of the Danube and extend as far as Austria.
Nikola Tesla Electrifying as Earth Hour Ambassador for Serbia
WWF has ‘recruited’ Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, one of the fathers of electricity, as an Earth Hour Ambassador in Serbia. Tesla was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is a national icon in his country.
EU funded conservation and restoration of Natura 2000 habitats begins in Bulgaria
An EU funded LIFE project run by WWF and the State Forestry Agency in Bulgaria aims to improve the conservation status of 10 Sites of Community Importance, which are also of national and European significance.
EU Danube Strategy to promote basin-wide development
The EU’s initiative to develop a Danube Strategy can help bring together and implement existing policies and legislation to achieve a "green economy" in the Danube basin.
29 New Protected Areas in Ukraine
WWF welcomed today the recent establishment of 29 new protected areas in Ukraine, all within the past 10 months. With these additions, Ukraine’s protected area system now covers ca 3.7 million ha, or approximately 5.5% of the country’s territory.
Maramures - doing business the green way
Since 2004 Maramures in norther Romania is part of a broader WWF initiative that seeks working examples of economic mechanisms for nature conservation and rural development across Europe. Edit Pop, project coordinator for WWF in Maramures, tells us how locals are doing green business today.
A decade on, lower Danube exceeds green corridor targets
A decade after four governments agreed to work together to establish a “green corridor” along the entire length of the Lower Danube River, Europe’s most ambitious wetland protection and restoration programme is well ahead of targets for creating protected areas.
Danube management plan a big step forward
The official adoption of the Danube River Basin Management Plan marks an impoortant step for the management of the Danube, the most international river basin in the world.
100,000 Danube citizens sign petition for a living river
WWF, BUND and other environmental NGOs have collected more than 100,000 signatures of concerned citizens, who have signed a petition against navigation projects threatening the environment. The signatures were handed over to the ICPDR President Mitja Bricelj today.
Sofia on the right track to sustainable urban mobility
WWF's One Planet Mobility programme aims to work with five European cities - Sofia, Barcelona, Malmö, Freiburg, Lille - to develop a vision for sustainable urban mobility and explore ways to achieve that vision by 2030.
