SaveGREEN Safeguarding the functionality of transnationally important ecological corridors in the Danube basin

HOPING TO MAP IMPORTANT WILDLIFE corridors used by large carnivores and other animals, researchers from Mendel University in Brno have been fitting satellite tracking collars to five male lynx during the past year. The aim is simple, yet crucial:...

On Saturday, 22 May, SaveGREEN joined millions of people around the world in celebration of World Biodiversity Day, this year under the slogan “We’re part of the solution #ForNature”. This year’s Biodiversity Day is particularly important as the...

Roads, railways, power-lines and other linear infrastructures are global major threats to biodiversity. Yet, they are also essential to meet the demands of growing populations. Urgent decisions and targeted actions are needed to ensure that the...

With ecological corridors in the Danube region currently threatened by the lack of proper planning of economic development activities, the need to fund interventions in line with the standards of green infrastructure is critical. Thus, the...

The SaveGREEN project team had a forward-looking 2021 launch by participating in the IENE International Conference “LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions.” After 25 years of existence, it was the first virtual...

What could be a better evidence of a nature conservation project's success, than having their non-human target groups (in our case the large carnivores like the Brown bear, and the Grey wolf) resettled to a protected area?  Well, SaveGREEN's...

The Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathian Mountains met on 25 November 2020 -- for the first time online. The Parties to the Carpathian Convention adopted a number...

Aiming to introduce its preliminary work on the planning of a green bridge installation in the Novohrad-Nógrád Slovak-Hungarian cross-border pilot area, SaveGREEN’s Associated Strategic Partner, the Slovak National Motorway Company, took part in...

Leaders of the SaveGREEN and rEvERsE projects, WWF-CEE and the International Union of Railways (UIC), respectively, laid the rail tracks of cooperation for the maintenance of ecological corridors and wildlife protection.   Straight to the...

As the Hungarian focal point of the SaveGREEN project, CEEweb organised the first online local cross-sectoral stakeholder Working Group (WG) meeting on 15 October 2020. The meeting marked the beginning of the project implementation for the...

The SaveGREEN project has had a non-stop commencement of activities, having said “present” in a series of professional events to introduce its objectives and synergies with projects and initiatives all over. Between the months of October and...

In the evening hours right after the first day of the SaveGREEN Kick-off Meeting, on Tuesday, 8 September 2020, a lynx got hit by a car near the village of Chvalčov in Hostýn Hills (Eastern Moravia) in one of the SaveGREEN pilot area. According...

The European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius has announced the six winners of the Natura 2000 Awards for 2020  on the 15th of October - including projects from Finland, France, Belgium, Spain,...

Balance, how nature works, how it endures, and how it prevails. Pollinators, plants, herbivores, carnivores: all are interconnected, need each other, keep each other in check. Rupture of that natural balance is not great news. Ecological...