SaveGREEN Safeguarding the functionality of transnationally important ecological corridors in the Danube basin

For the past two-and-a-half years, the SaveGREEN project has focused on identifying, collecting, and promoting the best solutions for safeguarding ecological corridors in the Carpathians and other mountain ranges in the Danube region. Ecological...

All together 27 participants gathered at the Transnational Experience Exchange Workshop Ukraine online event within the SaveGREEN project. During the round-table, the participants overviewed the practical experience of project implementation, the...

SaveGREEN project's experts in Ukraine organized a training event for stakeholders on "Peculiarities of EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) during the planning of transport infrastructure construction and potential environmental risks analysis...

WWF- Ukraine expert team of the SaveGREEN project, invites you to an international online seminar on the SaveGREEN project's experience exchange. Representatives of the scientific community, transport infrastructure construction experts,...

The Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation (BBF), Black Sea NGO Network (BSNN) and the South-West State Enterprise (SWSE) organised a field trip for regional and national media to present conclusions and recommendations based on the monitoring of...

Interactive outdoor activities, entertaining talks and discussions engaged experts and young nature lovers The autumn started with an interactive event at the Bulgarian partners of the SaveGREEN project, the Black Sea NGO Network (BSNN) and...

On 8 November 2022, the two Austrian SaveGREEN project partners, the Austrian Environmental Agency (EAA) and WWF Central & Eastern Europe (WWF-CEE), held the second in a series of trainings for spatial planners on the integration of ecological...

As previously introduced, the Beskydy Mountains are the last place in the Czech Republic with the regular presence of all three species of European large carnivores. Here as in the whole Carpathians, the carnivore populations are under severe...

Ready, steady, go! SaveGREEN launches Twitter Adventure on ecological connectivity in the Carpathians! The SaveGREEN project has launched its own Twitter game. ‘Make your own story’ – or ‘MYOS’ – is a playful and informative way to help users...

As Autumn is slowly woven itself into our everyday life, summer seems far away from us, whilst it was really eventful! Mostly due to the pandemic, the project partner team WWF Slovakia postponed the SaveGREEN Infoday until the summer. But, this...

On 18 October 2022, SaveGREEN co-hosted a Side-Event on Ecological Connectivity in the frame of the 11th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). The event, which celebrated the...

  Event:  11th EUSDR Annual Forum 2022, Side-event on ‘Achieving functional biodiversity in the Danube-Carpathian Region by mainstreaming ecological connectivity – how to make it happen’ Location: Online Date: 18 October 2022,...

This fluffy guy on the camera trap looks like a domestic cat with its grey-brown fur and black stripes. But what is it exactly? Its muscular short legs and relatively thick fluffy tail with a dark tip distinguish it from its well-known relative,...

Do you know selfies? Our visitors at the Novohrad pilot area of SaveGREEN certainly do. I didn't want to use selfies for a long time, but it "got me". Especially in cases where a person travels alone and wants to send nice photos to loved ones....

From 19-23 September 2022, the SaveGREEN Consortium attended and contributed to the IENE 2022 Conference in Romania. The event offered the SaveGREEN team the valuable opportunity to meet and exchange with a host of different actors working on...

SaveGREEN is primarily focused upon protecting and strengthening key ecological corridors in the Danube basin, but ecological connectivity is a concern around the world. What do we have to learn from international green infrastructure...

Transport infrastructure is a strong driver of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss in Europe and around the world. In recent years, the threat of climate change to both biodiversity and human infrastructure has also become increasingly...

At the heart of the SaveGREEN project is the goal of strengthening ecological connectivity. What projects already exist in Europe that have demonstrated the possibility of achieving this goal? SaveGREEN represents the latest in a series of...

From 4 to 7 July 2022, representatives of the SaveGREEN project participated in the Final conference of the “Open Borders for Wildlife in the Carpathians” project (OBWIC), held in Baia Mare, Romania. In the course of the conference, WWF Romania,...

Wildlife crossings have started to become, in recent years, ever more present. Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, to name a few, today all have dozens of distinct wildlife crossings. Unfortunately, the same cannot yet be stated regarding...