Andreas Beckmann
Deputy Director
WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Office (DCPO),
Vienna Main
+43 1 524547021
Konstantin Ivanov
Communications Coordinator
WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Office (DCPO),
Bulgaria
+359 2 9505041
WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Office (DCPO),
Bulgaria
71 Knyaz Boris I Str.
fl.2,
ap.2
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria Bulgaria
+359 2 9505040 +359 2 9505040
The Danube River is one of Europe’s largest rivers, flowing over 2,857km from Germany’s Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores of the Black...
The Lower Danube, flowing more than 1,000 km through Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine, is one of the last free flowing stretches of river in Eur...
The Danube-Carpathian region stretches from Germany in the west to Romania and Ukraine in the East, from Poland in the north to Bulgaria in the south....
Amidst this year's celebrations of Danube Day, WWF is concerned about persisting threats to the Danube as a living river. Government and EU plans to remove “bottlenecks” for navigation could impact up to 1,000 km of the river’s most natural sections.
WWF launches initiative to promote and restore wilderness areas in Europe.
Relatively little wilderness remains in densely settled Europe. Efforts are now underway to save the continent’s last remaining wilderness areas.
GLOBUL, the Bulgarian mobile phone operator, is providing core support for this year’s National Parks Day, which WWF-DCP/Bulgaria is organizing on May 23 in cooperation with the Bulgarian Association of Nature Parks.
Five years after the EU’s “big bang” enlargement to the East and South, some wins have been scored for nature conservation in the new member states.
WWF has welcomed a European Parliament vote today that proposes a 2019 deadline for all new houses, offices and shops built in the European Union to produce the same amount of energy they consume. The deadline will be 2016 for all new public buildings.
WWF has welcomed today’s decision by the European Parliament to support strict rules to eliminate illegally harvested wood from the European market.
The energy strategy recently proposed by the Bulgarian government needs a complete overhaul according to WWF and other Bulgarian NGOs. Rather than respond to new opportunities and challenges, including EU priorities for energy and climate, the proposed strategy is backward looking, with many elements based on plans from as far back as the 1950s.
With a series of critical European Union meetings on a new global climate deal about to begin, WWF has set out what Europe needs to do to grow in a green way while contributing to helping the world avoid passing the 2 degree threshold of warming that presents unacceptable risks of catastrophic climate change.
Local environmental organizations criticize development of Bansko Ski Zone
