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700 Russian Sturgeons Successfully Released Into The Danube River
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 6:07 am | WWF
The action contributes to the cross-border effort to increase the number of sturgeons in the Danube River. Seven hundred Russian sturgeons were released into the Danube on October 16, one week before the World Fish Migration Day (October 24). This is ... More >>
Ill-Conceived Flood Control System Is Halted On Hajógyári Island In The Hungarian Danube
Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 8:10 am | WWF
The drastic reduction of wetland areas, pollution, overexploitation of freshwater resources and alteration of wetland habitats for decades has resulted in negative impacts to the Danube Basin ecosystem and the millions who depend on it. If the planned ... More >>
WWF’s Living Planet Report Reveals Average Two-thirds Decline In Wildlife Populations Since 1970
Friday, 11 September 2020, 7:18 am | WWF
According to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 released today, global populations* of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have suffered an average two-thirds decline in less than half a century. The decline is due in large part to the very ... More >>
How Floodplains Clean The Water Of The Danube: New Project For The Danube Basin
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 7:46 am | WWF
How do floodplain areas along the Danube contribute to improving water quality, and how can diverse interests be taken into account in their transboundary management? These questions are being addressed by a consortium funded by the European Union ... More >>
100-Year-Old Hungarian Forest At Tiszaug Falls Victim To Illegal Clear-Cutting, Again
Sunday, 6 September 2020, 7:01 am | WWF
Another illegal clear-cutting took place in a protected state forest area near Tiszaug in August. There was no serious prosecution after the first incident in January. According to WWF-Hungary , the current sad example also proves that as long as flood ... More >>
Hazardous Dredging Begun In The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 7:48 am | WWF
In Ukraine, dredging of the Pripyat River has been launched at eight sites planned for this year. This work is being carried out as part of the restoration of a bilateral waterway between Ukraine and Belarus, and is being seen as the first steps of the ... More >>
WWF-New Zealand Is Taking A Stand For Our Ocean
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 1:23 pm | WWF
This election, WWF is amplifying the voices of New Zealanders as they call for a better protected ocean. On Monday 31 August, WWF-New Zealand launched a new digital campaign, demanding our political leaders finally make ocean health an election issue ... More >>
22 August - The World Starts Living On Borrowed Time
Friday, 21 August 2020, 10:32 am | WWF
We are a day away from when our planet starts living on borrowed time. Earth Overshoot Day 2020 is August 22. This is the day when humanity has used all of our planet’s natural ecological resources and moves into overdraft. The costs of this global ecological ... More >>
COVID-19 Has Caused Humanity’s Ecological Footprint To Contract By 3 Weeks
Friday, 14 August 2020, 7:10 am | WWF
Earth Overshoot Day 2020: August 22 Even though there has been an incredible cost to human life and the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic, our ecological footprint in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has still more-or-less remained where it was ... More >>
In First-Ever Global Assessment, Over 500 New Dams Planned Within Protected Areas
Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 5:06 am | WWF
Two hydropower projects are threatening Natura 2000 sites in Romania: one in Defileul Jiului National Park and the other in Răstolia. Dams are one of the main factors in the 76% collapse in freshwater migratory fish populations since 1970. 509 dams ... More >>
Landmark Slovak Court Decision On Small Hydropower
Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:20 am | WWF
Court Decision in Small Hydropower Case: The Public Interest Takes Precedent over Private Business The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic definitively stopped the licensing of a small hydroelectric power plant in Žiar nad Hronom, Central Slovakia. ... More >>
Eight New Bison Contribute To The Largest Free-Roaming Population In Romania
Friday, 24 July 2020, 6:51 am | WWF
Bison are a key species that sculpts the ecosystem and influences biodiversity Eight new bison, the largest land mammal in Europe, have reached Bison Hillock, in Armeni, Romania where they will soon join the other 57 free-roaming individuals in the Southern ... More >>
Danube Day: Thousands Of Critically Endangered Beluga Sturgeon Released Into The Danube
Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 6:32 am | WWF
Beluga Sturgeon. Photo: WWF Bulgaria Over 7000 Beluga Sturgeon have been released into the Danube River to mark Danube Day 2020 . Hundreds of people across Europe backed a WWF-Bulgaria crowdfunding appeal. Each one is now the proud parent of a ... More >>
EU Commission Plans Green Reset For Nature, Food And Farming
Friday, 22 May 2020, 7:05 am | WWF
Yesterday, the European Commission published their roadmap for EU policy action on biodiversity and food for the coming decade. In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak that has brought our relationship with the natural world into sharp focus, the strategies ... More >>
On World Health Day, WWF Calls For A Halt To The Illegal Wildlife Trade And Forest Crime
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 6:59 am | WWF
This World Health Day, the world is grappling with the worst public health emergency in recent memory. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has brought the link between zoonotic diseases - those transmitted from animals to humans - and wildlife trade into sharp ... More >>
Earth Hour 2020 Goes Digital In Solidarity With People And The Planet
Saturday, 28 March 2020, 11:40 am | WWF
March 28, 20:30 - your time On Saturday, 28 March, Earth Hour, one of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment , will once again inspire individuals, businesses and organisations in over 180 countries and territories to renew their ... More >>
Christmas Comes Early for Rivers and Nature
Friday, 13 December 2019, 8:24 am | WWF
The European Commission’s final evaluation of EU water legislation has concluded the EU Water Framework Directive to be “fit for purpose;” acknowledging that the objectives of the law “are as relevant now as they were at the time of the ... More >>
State of the Environment Report 2020
Thursday, 5 December 2019, 9:18 am | WWF
4 December 2019 (Brussels) - The EU is not on track to meeting the vast majority of environmental targets for 2020 – and the outlook for 2030 and 2040 is even bleaker. This is the devastating verdict of the ground-breaking State of the Environment Report ... More >>
European Mayors Support a Just Transition from Coal
Thursday, 17 October 2019, 9:29 am | WWF
16 October 2019 (Brussels, Belgium) - A group of 41 mayors from 10 coal regions in 9 European countries are launching a statement supporting a just transition to the post-coal era. Two of the mayors - from the Czech Republic and Germany - presented ... More >>
Global Forest Wildlife Populations in Significant Decline
Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 8:27 am | WWF
13 August 2019, Woking (UK) – The first-ever global assessment of forest biodiversity , Below the Canopy shows that monitored forest-dwelling wildlife populations have shrunk on average by more than half (53%) since 1970 . The new WWF report highlights ... More >>
