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

The impacts of infrastructure development on ecosystems and biodiversity are vividly evident today. Roads represent the first tendrils of human expansion, driving deforestation and degradation, opening thousands of hectares of previously intact...

The Târgu Mureș – Târgu Neamț pilot area stretches along three counties (Mureș, Harghita, and Neamț) and links two major historical regions: Transylvania in the west and Moldova in the east. It also incorporates some of the Romanian Eastern...

The Beskydy-Kysuce pilot area is a mountainous cross-border region at the edge of the Western Carpathians. It consists of the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy, Kysucké Beskydy, Javorníky, Jablunkov, and White Carpathian mountain ranges, the Hostýn...

Our second virtual trip with the SaveGREEN project takes us to the beautiful Kobernausser Forest, situated at the edge of the ecological corridor connecting the Austrian Alps with the Czech Republic, and to the village of Pöttsching, which lies...

Scientists have been monitoring the lynx population in Slovakia for more than five years. What are the reasons behind the specie’s dwindling numbers? There might be as few as 200 lynxes in Slovakia. Poaching and road and railway collisions...

On 11 November, several members of the SaveGREEN project team participated in the 16th Steering Committee meeting of the EUSDR’s (EU Strategy for the Danube Region) Priority Area 6 (PA6). The meeting centered around the key topic of ‘Ecological...

‘Youth and Digitalisation’ were the core topics of the 10th Annual Forum of EUSDR.  November 2021 marks the first occasion in which a non-EU member state, Ukraine, assumes the rotating presidency of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region...

Let us guide you along a virtual trip through the breath-taking scenery of the Novohrad-Nógrád green infrastructure (GI) pilot area, which straddles a border area between Hungary and Slovakia. At this ‘blue corridor’ crossing you need a boat to...

“Down below, next to the field, runs a narrow corridor lined with trees and bushes,” András Weiperth form MATE university pointed out. “That’s the most likely route for wolves passing through the area.” This is interesting enough information...

This is the first in a series of articles focusing on green infrastructure (GI) and how its various applications can help tackle the biodiversity crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. We also explain how the SaveGREEN project promotes good GI...

CEEweb associates and volunteers, along with SaveGREEN partners, assembled in Aggtelek for the Falka Napok festival to advocate for the protection of large carnivore species. How did we do, and what did we learn?   Human activity has...

Hungarian stakeholders unite to consider how to improve the ongoing SaveGREEN project and promote Green Infrastructure development within pilot areas. Ecological corridors and biodiversity within SaveGREEN pilot areas are hugely at...

HOPING TO MAP IMPORTANT WILDLIFE corridors used by large carnivores and other animals, researchers from Mendel University in Brno have been fitting satellite tracking collars to five male lynx during the past year. The aim is simple, yet crucial:...

On Saturday, 22 May, SaveGREEN joined millions of people around the world in celebration of World Biodiversity Day, this year under the slogan “We’re part of the solution #ForNature”. This year’s Biodiversity Day is particularly important as the...

Roads, railways, power-lines and other linear infrastructures are global major threats to biodiversity. Yet, they are also essential to meet the demands of growing populations. Urgent decisions and targeted actions are needed to ensure that the...

With ecological corridors in the Danube region currently threatened by the lack of proper planning of economic development activities, the need to fund interventions in line with the standards of green infrastructure is critical. Thus, the...

The SaveGREEN project team had a forward-looking 2021 launch by participating in the IENE International Conference “LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions.” After 25 years of existence, it was the first virtual...

What could be a better evidence of a nature conservation project's success, than having their non-human target groups (in our case the large carnivores like the Brown bear, and the Grey wolf) resettled to a protected area?  Well, SaveGREEN's...

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...

Aiming to introduce its preliminary work on the planning of a green bridge installation in the Novohrad-Nógrád Slovak-Hungarian cross-border pilot area, SaveGREEN’s Associated Strategic Partner, the Slovak National Motorway Company, took part in...