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  • News & Media

    Slovenia's Flood Forecasting Success: Minimizing Casualties Through Effective Warning Systems

    In the wake of what has been declared the nation's 'worst-ever natural disaster,’ more than 70% of Slovenia's territory, predominantly situated in the Danube River Basin, has been severely affected by extreme flooding. The scale of this catastrophe has led to billions of Euros in damages and a tragic loss of lives.

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    Switzerland

    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the convergence of Western, Central Southern Europe. Switzerland's natural landscape is marked by its numerous lakes and mountains, geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps, and the Jura.

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    Danube Watch 3/2021 - WACOM: Water Contingency Management in the Sava River Basin

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    We Pass: Explained (low resolution) (9.37 MB)

    A brochure explaining the findings and activities (2018 – 2021) under We Pass: Facilitating Fish Migration and Conservation at the Iron Gates. (Lower Resolution version)
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    We Pass: Explained (15.01 MB)

    A brochure explaining the findings and activities (2018 – 2021) under We Pass: Facilitating Fish Migration and Conservation at the Iron Gates.
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    ICPDR's We Pass Project Holds its 1st Stakeholder Workshop

    On Thursday 12 December 2019, We Pass – an EU-funded project with the ICPDR aiming to facilitate fish migration and habitat conservation in the Danube River Basin – held its first stakeholder workshop on the banks of the Danube River in Vienna, Austria.

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    Report on the Ice Event 2017 in the Danube River Basin (6.97 MB)

    Freezing weather conditions in the winter months have been a fact of life on the Danube since time immemorial, but the months of January and February 2017 saw many countries in the Danube Basin and...
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    WE PASS - Facilitating Fish Migration and Conservation at the Iron Gates

    We Pass was an initiative aiming to facilitate fish migration in the Danube River Basin, set up by the ICPDR, Jaroslav Černi Institute, DDNI, CDM SMITH, OAK Consultants, and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. The focus was on the preservation and reestablishment of endangered fish species migration routes in the Danube River, its tributaries, and specifically at the Iron Gates.

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    Restoring fish migration routes in the Danube River Basin - Feasibility study on Iron Gate dams commissioned to explore joint solutions

    The signing of the grant agreement between the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) and DG REGIO will enable a feasibility study that aims to identify ways forward to preserve of fish stocks at the Romanian-Serbian border. This action is an important step in the ongoing efforts to achieve a central objective of the EU Strategy for the Danube River: saving the Danube sturgeons from extinction. Despite its longevity, this “dinosaur fish” is considered one of the most endangered species in the world.

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    MEASURES - Safeguarding Sturgeons in the Danube River Basin

    Sturgeons and other migratory fish species represent a historic, economic and natural heritage of the Danube River Basin and are indicators of the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems, especially of the functionality of ecological corridors. Their populations have suffered substantially from overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and disruption of their migration routes. The need for their conservation is recognized at a high political and management level (EUSDR-PA 06, Biodiversity, DRBMP).