DANUBEparksCONNECTED Bridging the Danube Protected Areas towards a Danube Habitat Corridor

The three-day final conference of the DANUBEparksCONNECTED project was held from 11th to 13th June. Organized by Public Enterprise „Vojvodinašume“ from Serbia, the conference was held at the Hotel Park in Novi Sad .   On June 11th,...

  Cycling the Danube - the trip to the Natural treasures along the...

The memorandum of cooperation of the "Danube Canyons" has been signed thus enabling for these particularly spectacular Protected Areas along the Danube to move closer together. Experts from Germany (Danube Valley near Passau), Austria (Wachau,...

In the frame of DANUBEparksCONNECTED together with Nationalpark Donau-Auen and viadonau, an island revitalisation work at Wolfsthal island east of Vienna has recently been implemented. Islands are ecologically important flagship habitats...

We are pleased to announce, that the signing process of the WILDisland Commitment by the Danube Protected Areas has finished and the document is finally complete! This is a huge step forward, since the commitment signed by all DANUBEPARKS...

The workshop on 26-28th of September was organized in Kopački Rit to discuss further steps for work package DANUBE FREE SKY. External experts Alexandru Dorosencu (Danube Delta National R&D Institute, Romania) and Remo Probst (Birdlife Austria)...

    A Danube-Wide Volunteers Day, 15...

We are really excited to announce that the cross-border grazing within the DANUBEparksCONNECTED project is returning, through which we aim to maintain the grassy habitats of the flood protection dyke within Nationalpark Donau-Auen. A flock...

On Friday, 29th June 2018, the first “letter of intent” for non-intervention management was signed by Dr. Marcel Huber, the Bavarian Minister for Environment, to ensure natural development and wilderness on two islands with an area of 5...

DANUBEparksCONNECTED is actively celebrating the International Danube Day 2018 in course of the 2nd Danube Volunteers Day! Today we clean the Danube River banks in Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Germany. Afterwards, volunteers and organizers...

The second cross-sector conference for transnational cooperation for the Danube took place on 29‐30th of May 2018 in Kladovo, Serbia. In the framework of this interdisciplinary conference organized by Danube STREAM representatives of three...

From 25th-27th April DANUBEparksCONNECTED partners met in Sombor for the 2nd Riparian Forest Study Tour of the Middle Danube region. The event was organized together with a coopMDD project workshop, and included visits to three floodplain...

Study visit of the Monitoring Committee of the Danube Transnational Programme to DANUBEparksCONNECTED, Danube STREAM and DanubeSediment          In the course of the meeting of the Monitoring Committee (Vienna, 28th-29th November), the...

On 14th November 2017, DANUBEparksCONNECTED was the first project of the Danube Transnational Programme that had the First Year Review. The meeting took place in Ruse/Bulgaria, was embedded into an expert workshop on ecological connectivity, and...

On 8th-9th November, the DANUBEPARKS Task Group (Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority as workpackage responsible partner, Duna-Ipoly Nemzeti Park, City of Ingolstadt, BROZ, Donau-Auen Nationalpark) participated at the conference Bird...

The sheep arrived !   Photos: NPDA   A small herd of sheep from Slovakia arrived in Stopfenreuth, Austria (Nationalpark Donau-Auen). They crossed the border to maintain the dyke called “Marchfeldschutzdamm”. The dyke is an...

From 7th to 9th September the Duna-Iploy National Park Directorate invited DANUBEparksCONNECTED to Visegrád and Dömös for a WILDisland expert meeting and the 20 years anniversary of the National Park. Photo: Damir Masic External...

We thank our helpers for their support in protecting dry habitats and we are very much looking forward to the next “1st Danube Volunteers Days” in Passau, Germany and Rusenski Lom,Bulgaria on September 16th. Here are a few...

Since the beginning of September DANUBEparksCONNECTED hosts an Interreg Youth Volunteer. Damir will support us for the next 6 months and it is our pleasure to have him on board. As introduction to our project, we asked Damir a couple of...

At the beginning of July 2017 the DANUBEPARKS Network of Protected Areas came together in Kopacki rit (Croatia) to celebrate its 10th anniversary and also to work actively together at the Kick Off of the 1st Danube Volunteers Day. Ten...