lifelineMDD Protecting and restoring ecological connectivity in the Mura-Drava-Danube river corridor through cross-sectoral cooperation

In the last year of the project lifelineMDD, 2022, IRSNC organized about 20 events in the frame of the Mura Festival. A major part of the events is planned for children from local schools where children can learn about the Mura River, typical...

MVP TAKE CARE OF STORKS AND MARSHY AREA ALONG THE ČRNEC STREAM The Municipality of Velika Polana (MVP) is aware of the importance of protecting the environment and taking care of protecting natural heritage in various actions. Together with...

Restoration activities in the Serbian pilot site Lovrenac have been executed on time, during August and September 2022. Together with our subcontractor, we decided that the third point on Lovrenac canal will be cleaned of excess vegetation and...

Winning photos by Ivor Fisher. For more photos, please check out Facebok profile: Ivor Fisher  

Bad Radkersburg, Austria – More than 100 scientists, nature conservationists, people working in public institutions, NGOs and local stakeholders, gathered in Bad Radkersburg for a 3-day conference “5-Country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube”....

December 2022- After 7 months of construction, works on the pilot measure Styria are completed. On December 21, 2022 the official opening took place with local stakeholders and inhabitants.   The measure in the municipality Mureck aims at...

WWF Hungary organized three field study visits to the TBR MDD area to improve the connections between professionals of different fields. The participants experienced the results of previous projects and gained new knowledge about the...

The only thing you need is to take a photo of some nature sight or scene in the area of ​​the Mura, Drava or Danube rivers, publish the photo on your Facebook or Instagram profile and tag #lifelinemdd and tag WWF Adria! Of course, don't...

Project partner - Pomgrad, water management company, started with the field works on the pilot site in second half of January 2022 and finished in March 2022. On a length of 250 m, a small widening on the left bank of Mura river was carried out...

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor and Austrian Federal President Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen have accepted the honorary patronage for the 5-Country Biosphere Reserve Conference...

In Bački Monoštor, the Institute for Nature Conservation of Vojvodina Province, together with WWF Adria and with the support of Public Enterprise "Vojvodinašume" and Citizens' Association "Podunav" from Bački Monoštor, organized a volunteer...

Because of the strictly guarded state border between Hungary and Yugoslavia in the second half of the 20th century, these rivers are not part of most of local people’s life even now. When organizing voluntary actions within the lifelineMDD...

JU ZDP VŽ organized the volunteering action on the river Drava in Varaždin county, on the location where sand martins nested in the past years. In cooperation with the local community, JU ZDP gathered 16 volunteers for this action, aiming to...

Project partners and associated partners of the lifelineMDD project have teamed up to visit restoration sites in the 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. The first part of the trip took the representatives of 16 institutions to Austria,...

The lifelineMDD project continues with the implementation of volunteering action and brings together young people to protect the nature of the UNESCO 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube! Together with students of the Biosphere School...

Sand martins (Riparia riparia) are one of the characteristic bird species in the UNESCO 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. As the smallest among European swallows and martins, they nest in large colonies in steep sandy banks near...

Raising awareness and transferring knowledge about the Natural Jewel of the UNESCO 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube is one of the main goals of the lifelineMDD project, so the partners from Austria RMSO presented their national...

From rivers to lakes, across floodplains, swamps, and marshes, wetlands are crucial for the survival of nature and people. However, we lost a third of the world's wetlands since 1970, and we are currently losing them three times faster than...

Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia - Over three very intensive days, between 24-26th of November, the mid-term conference of project lifelineMDD took place, online, with the participation of over 100 registered guests. The busy...

In mid-November, a youth forum on the 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube and in particular for the Biosphere Reserve Lower Mura Valley took place in the Rothof of the Fachschule Schloss Halbenrain. The young people were first...