REFOCuS Resilient riparian forests as ecological corridors in the Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve

Written in local languages they cover various topics related to riparian forest management and conservation. These include dealing with invasive species, what to do when natural regeneration fails and much more. At the moment many of these can be...

This was the leading question of our latest stakeholder workshop organised online on 15 October 2020 by the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE). It gathered 21 participants from all REFOCuS countries. Discussion helped in...

Professional forester? Nature conservationist? Forest visitor? Spotted forest pest or disease in riparian forests of Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve? You did? Please share with us your finding via DanubeForestHealth platform. Be our forest...

Announcement of three online stakeholder workshops to be held in October 2020 All interested please contact: Dr. Peter Železnik (peter.zeleznik@gozdis.si) Looking forward to collaborative learning and sharing our...

Croatian Forest Research Institute continues with plus-tree selection for project’s target species (pedunculated oak, narrow-leaved ash, black poplar, black alder and field elm) in Croatia and helps project partners in Austria, Slovenia, Hungary...

Stability of riparian forests in Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve is declining. Majority of native key stone species is seriously damaged. Natural forest regeneration often fails. No, this is not a beginning of a science fiction movie. This is...

One of the results of the REFOCuS project is development of forest management and nature conservation guidelines. Within the project we have developed a questionnaire for four groups of stakeholders that are somehow connected with the Biosphere...

We are kindly inviting stakeholders of the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube to join us for the two workshops. These workshops will take place in several venues in Austria (Vienna, Eckartsau, Nationalpark Donau Auen) on 16th...

Imagine strolling in forests of the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. You may see some trees that do not look well or observe some insects that you may not know anything about. You are interested to know more and learn how those pests and...

The project partners from Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape Austria (BFW) and Croatian Forest Research Institute spent one week, from 26-30/8/2019, in Bad Radkersburg (Austria). The goal of the joint...

REFOCuS organises a two-day workshop for forest tree health experts on 17th and 18th of June in Murska Sobota (Slovenia) in Hotel Diana. The goal for the first day is to present information system DanubeForestHealth as well as to present in the...

Previously we talked about need for walking through the forest transects for the purpose of collecting data about status of riparian forests in the Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve. Finally, it is time to walk the walk! Our colleagues from BFW...

ILFE has been very busy lately with selection of Black alder plus trees. This time they visited Bački Monoštor in the Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve which is close to town of Sombor and Danube River. Plus trees are those trees that score...

ILFE, one of the REFOCuS project partners organised a two-day workshop in Novi Sad on policy related issued affecting riparian forest management in the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. The workshop took place at the ILFE’s premises on 16th...

This month researchers of the Slovenian Forestry Institute, as part of their project activities, inspected the transects through the Slovenian riparian forests in the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. Transects are lines delineated on the maps...

Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE), a REFOCuS project partner, is organising a two-day workshop in Novi Sad on policy related issues affecting riparian forest management in the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. Forest...

ILFE has participated on the 14th International fair of education “Putokazi” held from 7th – 9th of March 2019 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Visitors of the fair, future and current students, got familiar with activities of ILFE in field of forestry...

Project partners gathered for the two-day project meeting in Jastrebarsko at the premisses of the Croatian Forest Research Institute. They discussed status of data collection, as well as ongoing and future project activities. Partners also...

REFOCuS will provide forest management and conservation guidelines for riparian forests in the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. For that purpose field observations will be carried out to investigate the current state of the forests in the...

The second partner meeting will take place in Jastrebarsko, Croatia, from 28th of February to 1st of March at the premises of Croatian Forest Research Institute. The institute hosts the regional seed bank of riparian tree species, that was...