Aoos & Vjosa: Boundlessly in full flow
Rivers know no borders and they create connections across borders. This is no empty phrase.
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Besjana Guri: How protecting the Vjosa became her life's work
In the series of articles ‘Inspirational women in nature conservation’, we highlight women who are bringing about positive change with passion, courage and vision and making a significant contribution to the protection of Europe's nature. To kick off the series, Besjana Guri talks about what it means to be a campaigner for free-flowing rivers in a country like Albania.
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Bird count with a downward trend
If you walk along the banks of a body of water anywhere in Europe in mid-January, there is a good chance that you will encounter birdwatchers. Traditionally, waterfowl are counted across Europe at this coldest time of the year. EuroNatur employee Justine Vansynghel accompanied our Albanian partners during the 2025 midwinter count.
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Meeting our donors gives me strength
For many donors, she was the face of EuroNatur. Now, after more than three decades, she is retiring at the end of the year. In this interview, she shares some thoughts and emotions connected with this step and passes the baton to her successor Ines Fantinato. From now on, the 48-year-old will be the main contact in donor relations.
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Sleepless in Serbia
In the mild late summer nights of south-east Europe, there are some birdwatchers, who choose to stay up all night at the weekend. Why? To listen for the sound lures that bird hunters have set up to attract and shoot quail on their migration southwards. We accompanied just such a group of Serbian bird conservationists on their night patrol.
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Getting out of the ivory tower – and into the river
Researchers want to save the Balkan rivers with a new self-concept! Interview with limnologist Gabriel Singer
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Livanjsko Polje: When humans enrich nature
The Livanjsko Polje in Bosnia-Herzegovina is a cultural landscape rich in biodiversity. We support farmers in finding approaches for a sustainable way of life. In this way, we are also helping to prevent young people from migrating. Our author Katharina Grund visited a some of them.
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Seal Conservationists from the Balkans on Germany’s Offshore Island
A maritime adventure: The small ferry takes us from Heligoland’s main island to the dune, just under a kilometre away. At the end of February, hundreds of Germany’s biggest marine mammal, the grey seal, are gathered there. And we will come very close to them...
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“Without the hunters, we wouldn’t have been able to push the project through!”
Under the LIFE Lynx project, a total of 18 lynx have been caught in the Carpathians and translocated to Slovenia and Croatia to strengthen the local lynx populations there. The project has been extremely successful, also due to the the collaboration with the hunters. We spoke to Maja Sever and Rok Černe from the Slovenian Forest Authority about the project.
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Trees for Spain’s bears: Cherries and plums for a peaceful coexistence
Broken branches, plundered cherry trees, a pile of droppings in the meadow - it's impossible to overlook: a powerful animal has been at work here. "This bear has to go!" hisses the owner of the property in Villarino del Sil, a village in the northern Spanish province of León. It won't be easy to placate him.
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