Danube Watch 2/2018
Owner/Publisher: ICPDR – International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, Vienna, secretariat@icpdr.org; Executive Editor: Hélène Masliah-Gilkarov; Editor: Robert Ives; Design: Wagesreiter & Polaschek Grafikdesign; Print: Gerin Druck GmbH; Online publishing: Alex Höbart; Cover photo: © Roman Vender, View from the mountains of Dürnstein, a town steeped in history on the Danube river.
Danube Watch is the official magazine of ICPDR, the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River. Danube Watch enhances regional cooperation and information sharing on sustainable water management and environmental protection in the Danube River Basin. It reports on current issues affecting the Danube Basin, and on action taken to deal with challenges in the river basin. Striving for scientific accuracy while remaining concise, clear and readable, it is produced for the wide range of people who are actively involved in the Danube River Basin and are working for the improvement of its environment.
The ICPDR accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to information or opinions of the authors of the articles in this issue.
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- Dear readers, As EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, I am delighted to open this edition of Danube Watch and present to you how EU Regional
- The Living Danube Partnership – working to restore rivers and wetlands Vienna 26 June: the WWF, Coca-Cola Foundation, Coca-Cola Company and the ICPDR took stock of the progress of
- Danube Road Trip The Road Trip Project is an initiative of the EU’s Regional and Urban Policy department of the European Commission which took eight young people on four routes
- On 8 July 2018 thousands of people across Europe jumped into rivers, streams and lakes in more than 160 European ‘Big Jump’ events. Groups of families and friends jumped to make
- Rediscovering Trajan’s bridge over the Danube The Roman Emperor Trajan (53-117 AD) is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion
- Renaturation projects that include the reconnection of side-arms and riverbank restoration, the construction of new gravel islands and bedload management, restocking of sturgeon populations
- 1. Eurasian or common curlew - once considered common, recent research indicates that there are fewer than originally thought. 2. Plover - a variety of different species of Plovers
- Project Baseline is a global, aquatic conservation initiative run by the non-profit organisation Global Underwater Explorers (GUE). Founded in the US in 1999 by a group of underwater cave
- The sunset is amazing. As the strong early-summer sunbeams start to fade into the scarlet-gold tranquillity of the water, a small boat appears from the cover of a willow bush with some
- Celebrating 70 years of the Danube Convention On 28 and 29 June 2018, the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade played host to a Ministerial Conference to mark the 70th anniversary of the signing
- Seventh Meeting of the Parties to the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin takes place in Bled The seventh Meeting of the Parties to the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin
- Volunteers for People in Distress – the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) The THW (Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk) is a governmental civil protection
- Pure Water for Generations – an interview with Pascal Roesler Last summer Pascal Roesler, a former businessman from Munich who is now director of the non-profit group “Pure
- Danube Day 2018: Get active for a healthier Danube! The ICPDR would like to thank everyone involved in Danube Day 2018. Read about events and organisers at www.danubeday.org
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