More room for our storks
From 29 June to 3 July 2016, all life revolved around the white stork in the Hungarian village of Nagybajom. More than 60 representatives of "European Stork Villages" from 13 different European countries converged on this little town of just three and a half thousand inhabitants in southwest Hungary.
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Blue Heart in Brussels
This week Balkan rivers gained valuable attention. In particular the EU Commission and the European Parliament want to put more emphasis on making sure that renewable energy development on the Balkans will not be to the detriment of rivers.
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Well-filled nurseries of the pelicans
Baby boom of Dalmatian Pelicans at Lake Skadar in Montenegro: Project staff counted 40 nestlings by mid-June. And this number will be increasing, as in the nests on the breeding platforms several eggs are still being incubated.
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Rare, endangered, under threat – Red Lists for the Balkans
How do you draw up a Red List for a country? What criteria should be applied? How do you assess the state of different species for the Red List? Issues surrounding the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) were the topic of training for 30 staff from EuroNatur’s partner organisations at a workshop held in Veliko Gradiste, Serbia from 6 to 10 June.
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“European Stork Village” 2016 designated
A new village has joined the already impressive network of European Stork Villages on Saturday. On 11th June the nature conservation foundation EuroNatur awarded the title of European Stork Village 2016 to the Greek village of Poros.
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Scientists criticize dam projects on the Vjosa
Between June 8 and 10, international experts met with scientists of the University of Tirana in Albania to discuss the future of the Vjosa river. They adopted a joint position paper, which was handed over to the Albanian Ministry of the Environment.
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Spotlight on the Balkan Green Belt
Final sprint for the cross-border photo competition “Balkan Green Belt”: Ending 30th of June, both residents and visitors of the unique habitat network are invited to submit their most beautiful photos of the region’s overwhelming nature, specific cultural features, and people to the participating EuroNatur partner organisations.
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Award-winning rural development
EuroNatur partner organisation Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation (BBF) is among the winners of the European Natura 2000 Award 2016. In cooperation with four other NGOs, BBF developed a program that serves both for protecting nature in Bulgaria’s Balkan Mountains and for creating sustainable economic prospects for the local population.
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Albania extends hunting ban by five years
Yesterday the Albanian Parliament decided to extend the ban on hunting throughout the country for a further five years. Despite the protests from hunters, the Ministry of Environment’s bill was passed with a small majority.
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EuroNatur: Forest destruction in Romanian national parks has to stop
In spite of affirmations by the government to the contrary, and despite primeval forests are protected by law since 2008, destruction of old-growth forests continues unabatedly in Romania. A trip to the Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park in the southwest of Romania revealed shocking forest destruction.
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