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

SaveGREEN carried out its latest Transnational Experience exchange workshop in Budapest, Hungary, and Lučenec, Slovakia, allowing for stakeholders from the agriculture, forestry, water and game management, and spatial planning sectors to engage...

Although all SaveGREEN activities planned to take place in Ukraine, including ongoing monitoring activities in the Transcarpathian Pilot Area and the Transnational Experience Exchange Workshop, have been put on hold or slowed down until further...

10 June, 2022 - Aistersheim, Upper Austria: Austrian project partners present the value of ecological connectivity during a SaveGREEN InfoDay in the Kobernausser Forest Pilot Area. In the course of the morning, 24 school children were introduced...

From 31 May to 2 June, the SaveGREEN consortium organised the third event in its series of Transnational Experience Exchange Workshops. The two-part workshop began in Austria, where the attendees visited the Pöttsching pilot area situated in the...

Infrastructure is one of the essential elements of economic and social development for an efficient and modern society, but it must comply with environmental legislation and ensure the safety of both people and various animal species. WWF...

The transnational experience exchange workshop of the SaveGREEN project took place in Bulgaria on 11-12 May 2022.  The event was organised by the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation and the Black Sea Network of NGOs in cooperation with the...

After more than a year of GPS tracking of five male lynx in the Beskydy Mountains, the first results are in. Using telemetry monitoring, researchers from Mendel University in Brno have mapped the migration routes of these large carnivores, and...

On 28 April 2022, the two Austrian SaveGREEN project partners, the Austrian Environmental Agency, and WWF Central & Eastern Europe, joined forces with the Austrian Society for Landscape Architecture to offer insights into the state of ecological...

Wieliczka, Poland, 23-24 March 2022 After three intense and inspiring years, the Interreg Central Europe project “Centralparks - Building management capacities of Carpathian protected areas for the integration and harmonization of...

When thinking of a tool for wildlife monitoring in the field, a phone might not be the first thing that comes into your mind, right? Think again! The QField App is an innovative way to organise expert data collection from the field to create...

Assessing the functional connectivity of wildlife corridors, which involves carrying out a range of monitoring activities, is an essential part of the SaveGREEN programme. Following GIS-based modelling of important zones for connectivity, the...

On behalf of the SaveGREEN consortium, we are pleased to invite you to participate in our series of Transnational Experience Exchange Workshops, which will be held between May and September 2022. In the upcoming Transnational Experience...

The SaveGREEN Consortium is gravely concerned about the dire situation in Ukraine, and we are alarmed by the disturbing reports of violence and destruction across the country. Our hearts and thoughts are with those affected, especially the people...

This article is based on a story about the SaveGREEN project that was published in the Upper Austria Hunters’ Magazine, available here. Wildlife migration routes are not confined within national boundaries, so a trans-national approach is...

The Rila-Verila-Kraishte corridor, the SaveGREEN project’s pilot area in Bulgaria, is located deep in the Dupnitsa Valley and drained by the Struma River and its tributaries. This breathtakingly beautiful area is flanked by the Rila and Verila...

Hungary hosts the 5th IENE Workshop and the 3rd SaveGREEN Working Group Meeting. Initiating a dialogue between universities and experts from different sectors were crucial goals of the two-day workshop on green infrastructure, which took...

Our next virtual trip within the SaveGREEN project takes us to the gorgeous Zakarpattia Region (or Oblast), located in western Ukraine. This unique pilot area, comprising roughly 12,780 km2, lies within the Zakarpattia lowlands and along the...

Let's start the new year with an important throwback moment for SaveGREEN to the end of the year last year where a high-impact networking event took place. The Carpathian Convention held its 12th Implementation Committee Meeting in Krakow,...

After the Hungarian pilot site press visit, the "cross-border sibling area", Novohrad on the Slovakian side had its own successful press field trip as well, organised within the SaveGREEN project, reaching high media coverage and drawing public...

A complex and diverse natural and cultural landscape, the Arad-Deva pilot area in Romania harbours the Mureș River Valley, the Zarand and Metaliferi mountains to the north, and the Lipovei Hills and Poiana Ruscă Mountains to the south. The...