DANUBEparksCONNECTED Bridging the Danube Protected Areas towards a Danube Habitat Corridor

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - DANUBEparksCONNECTED final conference - Novi Sad, Serbia
    - 08-07-2019
    DANUBEparksCONNECTED final conference - Novi Sad, Serbia

    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,...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Cycling the Danube
    - 16-04-2019
    Cycling the Danube

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

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The "Danube Canyons" joined forces - The Memorandum of Cooperation has been signed
    - 19-12-2018
    The "Danube Canyons" joined forces - The Memorandum of Cooperation has been signed

    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,...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Revitalisation of Wolfsthal island
    - 06-12-2018
    Revitalisation of Wolfsthal island

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The WILDisland Commitment is signed!
    - 02-11-2018
    The WILDisland Commitment is signed!

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - WP4 DANUBE FREE SKY expert workshop in Kopački Rit
    - 15-10-2018
    WP4 DANUBE FREE SKY expert workshop in Kopački Rit

    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)...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The 2nd Danube Volunteers Day has officially ended
    - 12-10-2018
    The 2nd Danube Volunteers Day has officially ended

        A Danube-Wide Volunteers Day, 15...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The sheep are back
    - 30-07-2018
    The sheep are back

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The WILDisland initiative starts living!
    - 04-07-2018
    The WILDisland initiative starts living!

    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 - International Danube Day 2018!
    - 29-06-2018
    International Danube Day 2018!

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Cross-sector conference - Nature conservation and navigation alongside the Danube river
    - 29-06-2018
    Cross-sector conference - Nature conservation and navigation alongside the Danube river

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - 2nd Riparian Forest Study Tour
    - 03-05-2018
    2nd Riparian Forest Study Tour

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Transnational and Cross-sector Cooperation for the Danube
    - 07-12-2017
    Transnational and Cross-sector Cooperation for the Danube

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The 1st First Year Review – More than a formal obligation
    - 24-11-2017
    The 1st First Year Review – More than a formal obligation

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - WORKSHOP: DANUBE FREE SKY in Budapest - Hungary
    - 13-11-2017
    WORKSHOP: DANUBE FREE SKY in Budapest - Hungary

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The sheep arrived !
    - 26-09-2017
    The sheep arrived !

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - WILDisland Expert Workshop
    - 15-09-2017
    WILDisland Expert Workshop

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Wachau - 1st Volunteers Day
    - 11-09-2017
    Wachau - 1st Volunteers Day

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - hosts an Interreg Youth Volunteer (IVY)
    - 05-09-2017
    hosts an Interreg Youth Volunteer (IVY)

    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...

  • DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Kick Off 1st Danube Volunteers Day and 10 years DANUBEPARKS Kopacki rit
    - 11-07-2017
    Kick Off 1st Danube Volunteers Day and 10 years DANUBEPARKS Kopacki rit

    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...

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