Demand: EIB has to improve environmental and social standards
The European Investment Bank has financed a series of damaging hydropower projects since 2010 which underline the need to tighten its environmental and social standards, according to a new report published today by CEE Bankwatch Network and EuroNatur.
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Mark of support for biodiversity: EuroNatur Award presented to World Biodiversity Council researchers
++ Researchers working for the World Biodiversity Council IPBES have received the 2021 EuroNatur Award ++ Science is drawing attention to dramatic species extinction ++ Biodiversity crisis a threat to humanity ++
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Saving biodiversity: Researchers of IPBES receive EuroNatur Award
++ Researchers of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) are being awarded the EuroNatur Prize 2021 ++ Dramatic species extinction is a result of human activity ++ The biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis go hand in hand ++
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Two studies for the restoration of the Sava River and its floodplain published
Two brand-new studies for the revitalization of the Sava River and its floodplain have been published presented to key stakeholders from 19 to 22 September as part of the Sava Parks II - Freedom for Sava project.
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Renewed violence against environmental activists in Romania
A forest conservationist and two journalists have been brutally beaten up by suspected illegal loggers in the Carpathians. This is not the first case of violence against people who stand in the way of the Romanian timber mafia.
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Mura-Drava-Danube Designated a Biosphere Reserve
Now it is official: along the three rivers Danube, Drava and Mura there is now Europe‘s largest river reserve. Spanning a length of 700 kilometres, it stretches from Austria through Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary to Serbia.
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Ulcinj Salina: 2 Years RAMSAR Site
Two years ago, on 10 September 2019, the Ulcinj Salina in the South of Montenegro was declared as a RAMSAR site, a Wetland of International Importance.
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Bat roost safeguarded for the future
++ Building work on the “Old Brewery” in Frankfurt (Oder) completed ++ Hibernation roost for more than 1,200 bats ++ International conference 26th-28th October 2021 ++
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Kostas the monk seal has been killed
The Mediterranean monk seal Kostas was found in the Mediterranean after a severe storm and nursed back to health in a rescue centre. After being set free, Kostas continued to seek human company – and this proved to be his undoing.
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First cinereous vulture chick ringed in Bulgaria
After more than fifty years a cinereous vulture chick was born in the Balkan Mountains this spring. At the end of July, our Bulgarian partners ventured up to the nest and successfully ringed the young chick.
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