TRANSGREEN Integrated Transport and Green Infrastructure Planning in the Danube-Carpathian Region for the Benefit of People and Nature

June 27th 2019. Bucharest, Romania. During its last days of implementation, TRANSGREEN project representatives accepted the invitation to present its results in the session of EUSDR Workshops on the Capitalization of DTP Interreg projects. In...

Bucharest, June 25th 2019. New set of tools is now available for roads that take nature into account as a result of Carpathian countries – Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine – joining forces in unprecedented effort to reconcile...

June 2019. Kiev, Ukraine. WWF Ukraine has developed Scientific and methodological recommendations for the preparation of EIA report for road construction. After the cross-sectoral presentation of the report on June 13, 2019, the document will be...

June 2019. Kiev, Ukraine. WWF Ukraine has developed Scientific and methodological recommendations for the preparation of EIA report for road construction. After the cross-sectoral presentation of the report on June 13, 2019, the document will be...

Motion, dynamic, speed. These are words that, to a large extent, embody our lives. Highways seem to be a solution to the dynamics of development. A solution that interests us from many points of view - through the landscapes that are destroyed,...

400 wolves in Slovakia. Every year, on June 5th, the World Environment Day draws our attention towards nature's richness and the danger of losing it. To mark the event, we invited WWF Slovakia's large carnivores expert Jerguš Tesák to share his...

"Silence, please don't speak. Walk as gently as possible. " "Turn off your mobile phones and any source of light." The instructions are clear: no lights - no sounds as we enter the dark Carpathian forest in the middle of the night. The...

Budapest, April 2019. Food for thought on green and grey infrastructure and spatial planning from the TRANSGREEN International Conference on Natural-Infrastructure Connectivity. First, count over 110 registered participants. Then, consider a...

On Friday, March 15th, thousand of Romanians have protested for 15 minutes, asking for highways to be built in their country. WWF posted on its Facebook page a message asking for wildlife connectivity to be considered when planning and building...

What is limiting the large carnivore migration? News piece by: Hnutí DUHA Olomouc (Friends of the Earth Czech Republic) Photomonitoring confirmed the first recorded case of a large carnivore travelling between two West Carpathian mountain...

Kyiv, Ukraine. December 18th, 2018. TRANSGREEN project was invited to be showcased as a best practice during the International conference "Joining efforts for mobility in Danube region" organized by the Ukrainian Institute for International...

17 – 19 December 2018. Vienna, Austria. The 9th meeting of the Carpathian Convention Implementation Committee offered a context for member states to look back at the latest work in the region and to look forward to the next steps. In the...

4-5 December 2018. Ljubljana, Slovenia. The 4th Annual Stakeholders Conference of Danube Region Transport Days brought together around 120 stakeholders from all over the Danube Region including the ministerial level, EU representatives and...

26-27 November 2018. Praid, Romania. A mountainous area in the Carpathians’ Gurghiu Mountains, a natural beauty almost unaltered by human activity. Here, the A8 motorway is planned to be built in order to link two of Romania’s historical regions,...

13-14 November, Brno, Czech Republic. Two days of the Project Partners’ and steering committee meeting of the TRANSGREEN project spotted the light on the final deliverables of the project. In the next couple of months one by one the working...

As South East Europe is  growing into one the most important crossroads in Europe for international trade routes, TRANSGREEN project is advocating for nature to be considered in this development process. One opportunity to take steps in this...

On Wednesday, October 17th 2018, the third bear killed in the same place on the A1 highway, Sibiu-Sebeș, in Romania, over the past months. TRANSGREEN project partner  WWF-Romania demands authorities to take measures that are efficient and...

The Tîrgu Mures-Iași Pilot Area in Romania is somewhat unique among the target locations of the TRANSGREEN project. Construction work has not yet begun for the planned Tîrgu Mureș-Iași-Ungheni (A8) highway. Moreover, the Feasibility Study of...

Naming a lynx may take months. A winding path to identifying a new inhabitant of the Beskydy Mountains A story by JIŘÍ LABUDA, monitoring expert for Friends of the Earth, Olomuc branch, Czech Republic Last year was not easy for the...

Eindhoven, the Nederlands. 11-14 September 2018. TRANSGREEN project is in focus due to "lighting talk" held by project manager Hildegard Meyer and expert Václav Hlaváč (Nature Conservation Agency, Czech Republic),  2 poster presentations and at...