ConnectGREEN Restoring and managing ecological corridors in mountains as the green infrastructure in the Danube basin

On Wednesday, the 8th of September 2021, the Slovak Environment Agency (SEA SR) organised a public space event in the city of Žilina, Slovakia, which lies approximately in the centre of the one of the four ConnnectGREEN pilot areas: “Western...

From 28-30 September, 2021, WWF, the Carpathian Convention Secretariat, the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas (CNPA) Steering Committee, CEEweb for Biodiversity, and Eurac Research hosted the closing conference of the ConnectGREEN project in...

The central aim of the ConnectGREEN project is to contribute to maintaining and improving ecological connectivity between natural habitats, especially between Natura 2000 sites and other protected areas of transnational relevance in the...

Colțești, Alba, Romania. July 21st, 2021. 26 key stakeholders from 9 counties covering Romania’s Apuseni Mountains and South-Western Carpathians got together in order to give their feedback on the management measures for preserving the...

On May 19th this year, the ConnectGREEN team declared the winners of the “Connectivity for all!” Youth Video Contest. Award ceremonies have been organised in all three participating countries – Romania, Slovakia and Serbia, and highly encouraging...

The results of the ConnectGREN project aroused great media interest in Slovakia following an online press conference organized by Slovak and Czech project partners on April 30th 2021. A few days late, the project partners therefore organised a...

On 14 May 2021, the Serbian ConnectGREEN Project Partner, the Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS), held a workshop in which they presented the research performed under ConnectGREEN, as well as the project’s...

Today marks the end of the “Connectivity for all” Youth Video Contest organised in the frame of the ConnectGREEN project. 26 short films were submitted by youth of various age groups from Romania, Serbia and Slovakia, all of which centred on...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopts a resolution entitled “Nature knows no borders” on transboundary cooperation in environmental conservation, including the preservation of ecological connectivity for wildlife. In so doing, the...

An article released in the scientific research journal ‘Frontiers in Ecology and Environment’ found that an estimated 194 million birds and 29 million mammals are killed on road in Europe every year. In their study entitled ‘Roadkill risk and...

At the end of last year, the Slovak National Motorway Company (NDS) launched a public tender for the construction of a green bridge in Svrčinovec, Kysuce. It will be the fourth ecoduct built by the NDS in Slovakia. Where are the others and which...

At the end of September 2020, ConnectGREEN team members working for the Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening (VUKOZ) in the Czech Republic finished collecting the camera footage from its camera traps in the...

On December 2nd 2020, representatives from WWF-CEE, WWF Romania and CEEweb participated in the roundtable meeting of the Steering Committee of the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas (CNPA) on behalf of ConnectGREEN. The aim of the meeting,...

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...

What cheese do you use to get a bear out of a tree? - a 'Come-on-bear'! Probably not the best joke you have ever heard, but please bear with me. While using smelly French cheese to lure a bear out of a tree should definitely stay in the fictional...

The ConnectGREEN project aims to maintain and improve the ecological connectivity in the Carpathians. This is a highly complex task that requires good planning and cooperative management across the entire mountain range. A crucial element to such...

October 26, 2020. Romania. A virtual workshop was organized by INCD URBAN-INCERC together with WWF Romania on the topic of harmonizing spatial development interests with ecological ones by implementing ecological corridors in urban planning and...

At the Slovak - Czech border, conservationists celebrate the presence of the first wolf cubs. A success story made possible by the remaining migration corridors. 'Wolves began to return to the Czech Republic in the 1990s, first to the...

The eleventh edition of the Mikser Festival was held on October 8 and 9, 2020, under the slogan OXYGEN, in a unique festival ambience of the ethno household "Zornića kuća" near Belgrade. The Mikser Festival, well known all over...

October 5th, 2020. Bucharest, Romania. Young Romanians speak about ecological connectivity in the Carpathians to Romanian President, German Ambassador and other high-ranking guests during the live event* organized by the Embassy to celebrate the...