DANUBEparksCONNECTED Bridging the Danube Protected Areas towards a Danube Habitat Corridor
The Danube River is a green lifeline for biodiversity. While the Network of Danube Protected Areas preserves the most valuable sites, habitat fragmentation limits efforts to preserve a cohesive ecosystem.
DANUBEparksCONNECTED has initiated the DANUBE HABITAT CORRIDOR campaign to counteract fragmentation. It offers Danube-wide strategies and exemplary activities aiming to restore and maintain connectivity in all habitat elements:
- Water: The cross-sector Danube WILDisland CORRIDOR program protects the islands, which are flagship habitats for intact river dynamics and home to characteristic species.
- Land: Natural river systems also host dry habitats, today often fragmented to isolated patches. Under DANUBE DRY HABITAT CORRIDOR actvities such as cross-border grazing herds to manage dry habitats and test the long-distance functionality of the habitat corridor or the establishment of DANUBEPARKS Canyons Network will be implemented. A fitness check of the Danube Riparian Forest Corridor will define necessary measures and activities in cooperation with the forestry sector for further development of the Riparian Forest corridor.
- Air: DANUBE FREE SKY ensures collision-free bird migration along the Danube flyway. In cooperation with power line operators, technical solutions against bird collision with electricity wires crossing the Danube will be installed.
- Fire - COMMUNICATION: The various communication measures represent the"fire" and "spice up" our activities. For example: CYCLING THE DYKE invites stakeholders and interested participants from the public to bike the Danube Corridor on the dykes and to visit project results. Helping hands for the corridor management are welcome at the 1st DANUBE VOLUNTEERS DAY. The ongoing experience and knowledge exchange of project partners from 10 Danube countries and the cross-sectorial approach between water management, energy, nature conservation and policy drivers stands for long-term capitalisation of the Danube Habitat Corridor.
The transnational DANUBEPARKS Network’s know-how and experience on the ground make it best equipped to implement an innovative project building on existing policies.
Picture: Alexander Ivanov
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 30-11-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 3085412,49
- ERDF Contribution: 2487762,45
- IPA Contribution: 134838,13
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Foster the restoration and management of ecological corridors
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Final Brochure DANUBEparksCONNECTED | 27-02-2020 10:50:56 | |
| Danube Riparian Forest Corridor Position Paper | 11-01-2020 09:13:46 | |
| Danube Riparian Forest Corridor Fitness Check and Gap Analyses | 11-01-2020 09:10:47 | |
| Danube Dry Habitat Corridor Strategy | 11-01-2020 09:08:20 | |
| DANUBE FREE SKY Postion Paper | 11-01-2020 09:02:48 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donau-Auen National Park | Lead partner | g.frank@danubeparks.org | Austria |
| Landratsamt Neuburg-Schrobenhausen | ERDF partner | siegfried.geissler@lra-nd-sob.de | Germany |
| City of Ingolstadt | ERDF partner | thomas.schneider@ingolstadt.de | Germany |
| Passau District | ERDF partner | christiane.kotz@landkreis-passau.de | Germany |
| World Heritage Municipalities Wachau | ERDF partner | seehofer@wachau-dunkelsteinerwald.at | Austria |
Project News
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DANUBEparksCONNECTED - DANUBEparksCONNECTED final conference - Novi Sad, Serbia
- 08-07-2019
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,...
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DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Cycling the Danube
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DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The "Danube Canyons" joined forces - The Memorandum of Cooperation has been signed
- 19-12-2018
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,...
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DANUBEparksCONNECTED - Revitalisation of Wolfsthal island
- 06-12-2018
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...
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DANUBEparksCONNECTED - The WILDisland Commitment is signed!
- 02-11-2018
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...
