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

During spring and summer 2020, intensive fieldwork was carried out to verify ecological corridors of and barriers to the migration of large carnivores within the Czech part of the pilot area Western Carpathians. Four hundred migration...

The aim of the EU Green Week is to highlight the contribution that biodiversity makes to society and the economy and the role it can play in supporting and stimulating recovery in a post-COVID 19 world. On the 25th of September 2020, the project...

As has been the case around the world, daily life in Romania and the rest of Central Eastern Europe has been heavily impacted over the past months by the Covid-19 pandemic. Activities under ConnectGREEN are no exception in this regard, and...

Belgrade, 13 September 2020 In Serbia, the ConnectGREEN project has so far achieved a fairly large media coverage, primarily thanks to the recognition of the importance of the protection of large carnivores in the Carpathian region in Serbia...

Northern-Bükk region, Hungary. Students from the Hungarian Szent István University have developed a complex landscape protection and development plan, which focuses on the further development of 10 Hungarian villages in consideration of the...

Bratislava, Slovakia. June 30th, 2020. As the Slovakian ConnectGREEN taskforce has been undergoing intensive fieldwork for mapping ecological corridors and barriers, national media has kept an eye on their efforts. As a result, ecological...

Romania. April 2020. The virtual workshop focusing on next steps for ecological corridors in Romania brought together 30 participants from Romanian authorities (three ministries: Environment, Spatial Planning and, respectively, Transportation, as...

Serbia, 15th April 2020: Work on the ConnectGREEN project continues as the Second National Workshop on the Strategy of Ecological Corridors for the Carpathian countries turned online to move discussions further. As the song goes, the show...

Romania. April 2020. For the last kilometers that are still to be built as part of A1 Motorway, also known as the Lugoj-Deva Highway, the Romanian road authorities (CNAIR – National Company for the Management of Road Infrastructure) support the...

Ecological corridor model presented at the Zoological Days Conference in Olomouc, Czech Republic, 6-7 February 2020. Representatives of the ConnectGREEN Project Partner Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening...

April 2020. Slovakia, Muranska Planina National Park. Tripod is one of Slovakia's 300-600 wolves, but he is one who not only survived a car crash where he lost one leg, but continued life in the wilderness thanks to his pack, a pack which did not...

April 2020. Romania, Piatra Craiului National Park. The National Park with a fairytale name - in Romanian language "Piatra Craiului" translates as "the Rock of the Prince" - does justice to its name not only by the breath-taking landscape but...

March 31st, 2020. Virtual world Social distancing has become the responsible way to go in the current times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Adaptation, therefore, is a must. That is why the Interreg DTP ConnectGREEN project held its first...

March 10-11, 2020. Virtual world In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the precautionary principle was applied as the members of the Carpathian Convention Working Groups on Biodiversity and Sustainable Transport, and of the Steering...

Communication – whether aimed towards stakeholders, project partnerrs or the wider public – is a very important part of every project, and ConnectGREEN isn’t an exception. What would we do with all our findings and research if we couldn’t present...

December 11-13, 2019. Budapest, Hungary. Winter might be a freezing season, but not so enough to freeze the operations of the ConnectGREEN project, funded by Interreg DTP. Thus, between 11 and 13 December, representatives from the project...

November 25th 2019. Serbia. In an interview for ConnectGREEN, Mr. Vladan Bjedov, expert in large mammals and ecological connectivity at the Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia, discusses the status of the ecological network in his...

November 1st, 2019. Belgrade, Serbia. The TV set of Serbian National Television (RTS 2) host a team of representatives of the ConnectGREEN project who are today’s guests of the “Edu Global” show. Mrs. Marina Nenkovic-Riznic from IAUS (Institute...

October 24th 2019. Bucharest, Romania. ConnectGREEN project was introduced to highest-level decision-makers and specialists in urban and territorial development, with the occasion of the 16th edition of the prestigious national research...

October 2019. South-Western Carpathians, Romania.  Preparation for data collection from ecological corridors in Romania is in full operation, as WWF Romania’s field experts are actively testing monitoring tools in the field. We have already...