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European Parliament discusses Sava River
++ Opportunities for and threats to one of the most valuable rivers of Europe ++ Unique potential for natural flood control identified
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Handover of the Memorandum for Protection of the Primary Forest Heritage of Romania
Primary forests in Romania receive prominent support from all over the world. 200 scientists and forest ecology experts from 27 countries and three continents signed a joint Memorandum initiated by EuroNatur Foundation.
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#SaveParadiseForests-Campaign: Activists stopp Wood Trucks
Agent Green activists, scientists and mountaineers stop logging trucks in Romania to raise alarm about paradise forest destruction +++ Forest protectors call for a logging moratorium in primary forests and urge the Government to prevent a new law abolishing fines for primary forest destruction
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Romania’s old-growth forests under imminent danger
EuroNatur and Agent Green raise the alarm: A bill is proposed to lower fines for illegal logging and destruction of primeval forests in Romania +++ #SaveParadiseForests: Launch of international campaign to protect Europe’s last paradise forests
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Albania: European Parliament demands national park for Vjosa and stop to hydropower projects
In the current Enlargement Report of the European Parliament, the Parliament explicitly criticizes the Albanian government in regards to its hydropower policies. In the centre of their criticism are the hydropower projects on the Vjosa – Europe’s last big wild river.
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“White Book Sava” presented
On the occasion of this year’s World Wetland Day on February 2, the environmental organisations Riverwatch and EuroNatur today present the “”White Book Sava” – a comprehensive work about one of the ecologically most valuable but least known rivers of Europe.
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New Hope for Balkan Rivers
Funding for the two large hydropower projects in Mavrovo National Park, Macedonia, has been axed. After the World Bank withdrew from financing the hydropower plant ‘Lukovo Pole’ already in December 2015, now also the EBRD declared to pull out of the project ‘Boskov Most’.
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Scientists call environmental assessment for Vjosa hydropower project a farce
Renowned scientists from Austria and Germany have analysed the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the hydropower project Poçem on the Vjosa river in Albania. According to the experts the EIA is a farce. It does not even meet minimum requirements and is thus not suitable to predict environmental impacts of the projected hydropower plant.
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Arbitrariness by authorities and delusive laws undermine protection of primeval forests in Romania
Romania harbours the largest old-growth forests in Europe, but they vanish at breath-taking speed.
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Green Belt instead of Iron Curtain
The 9th Pan-European Green Belt Conference sent a clear message for cross-border cooperation in European nature conservation and for a stronger connection between human beings and nature. More than 125 representatives of NGOs and GOs, scientists and nature conservationists met from 31 October to 3 November in Koli National Park in Finland to intensify cross-border cooperation along the European Green Belt.
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