Croatia Designates Greater Nature Reserve
Good news from Croatia: on February 10th Croatia’s government designated the regional park Drau-Mur. The nature reserve, which is approximately 88.000 hectares wide, is Croatia’s first regional park and units the existing nature reserves and the Natura 2000 areas along the rivers Drau and Mur to one large nature reserve.
More ...Further enhancement for the European Green Belt?
Two further areas - both located on the Balkan Green Belt in Macedonia - are likely to be designated national parks. These two areas, the Shar Planina Mountains in the north of the country on the Kosovo border, and the Jablanica Mountains along the border between Macedonia and Albania, have one thing in common: they host an unequalled diversity of plant and animal species in Europe.
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House-Building for Mr. Stork
Ready for the return of the storks: volunteers have put up twelve new nesting platforms in the Polish stork village Pentowo last weekend despite frosty temperatures. 35 hatcheries are now ready for the homecoming storks.
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Designation of Green Belt nature treasure under Ramsar Convention
Good news from Balkan Green Belt: The ecological importance of the Dragoman swamps and its adjacent wetlands in Bulgaria has now been internationally acknowledged.
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River regulation threatens EU-membership of Croatia
Beach holiday and a steel blue Adriatic Sea: that's what most people have in mind when thinking of Croatia. Yet very few know that its hinterland hosts the largest floodplain forests in Europe. But these floodplaines are in danger.
More ...Bear and wolf captured on trail camera photo
People at PPNEA (Preservation and Protection of Natural Environment in Albania), a NGO and partner of EuroNatur in Albania, are delighted: for the first time and by means of a hidden trail camera, the Albanian conservationists succeeded in capturing pictures of wolves and bears in the Shebenik Mountains on the border of Macedonia.
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Proof of Balkan Lynx in Macedonia
The team of EuroNatur’s partner organisation MES (Macedonian Ecological Society) were happy about a special Christmas present: on 20th December 2010, the conservationists could prove the existence of the Balkan lynx in another region of Macedonia with the help of a “camera trap”.
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Imperial Eagle Gabriela traced
On December 4, the Bulgarian NGO Green Balkans succeeded in locating the radio-tagged female Imperial Eagle called Gabriela in the area of the Dervent Heights, close to the Turkish border. Gabriela is the third of the Imperial Eagles radio-tagged by Green Balkans that has survived its first 1-2 critical years.
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Offspring for Spain's Brown Bears
"This is like a Christmas present!" That's how Gabriel Schwaderer, managing director of EuroNatur, comments the most recent news from EuroNatur's project area in the north of Spain. For the first time after years, EuroNatur's partner FAPAS localizes a mother bear with her cub in the Teverga municipality in the Cantabrian Mountains.
More ...Crane Juula Arrives in Slano Kopovo
The Estonian crane Juula has arrived at the nature reserve Slano Kopovo for a stopover on its long flight to the wintering grounds in North Africa. Researchers of the Estonian university at Tartu have equipped Juula and two more cranes with transmitters to be able to trace their journey to and from their wintering grounds. The researchers’ website shows the current station of the birds.
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