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Female founders in Bulgaria: “We are here to stay and want to be pioneers of green solutions”0
May 2018. I hurry to the meeting point, car after car rushes beside me along the large boulevard in the centre of Sofia. Gergana Stancheva and Angela Ivanova are waiting for me in the park. They don’t have an office – we want to do the first interview on a bench. After a few minutes,
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Danube Nature Guides III – Building bridges between nature and culture0
Expansion of a cross-border network funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation within the framework of the program Perspective Danube 2021-2023. In order to strengthen the sustainable use of nature, the network involves training nature guides in the Danube countries, promoting cross-border exchange, and supporting social developments. The project proposed by the Lake Constance Region Nature School
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The Danube region: a habitat with a future0
Projects for sustainability in the Baden-Württemberg Foundation’s programme “Perspective Danube”: The Danube is the most important lifeline in South-Eastern Europe. Due to industrialisation, intensive agriculture and pollution, it is heavily contaminated and its biological diversity is endangered. With the programme “Perspective Danube: Education, Culture and Civil Society”, the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung supports educational and exchange projects,
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The Balkans – Home to Europe’s last living rivers0
It is quiet. You can hear nothing but the murmur of the river and the chirping of the birds. Although it is cloudy, every now and then a ray of sunlight will hit the surface of the water and make the water’s true colour shine. It shimmers in rich emerald green, and every few hundred
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Focus on floodplains0
The Danube Floodplain project aims to improve the transnational integrative water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation by restoring floodplains, combining classical and green infrastructure, natural retention measures, involving stakeholders. In the past decades, heavy alteration of wetland ecosystems characterized the land use. Since 1970, 90% of the global wetlands
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Why the sturgeon is a special fish for the Danube0
Threatened by illegal fishing and caviar trade Sturgeons represent a natural heritage of the Danube River Basin and key indicator species for high ecological quality of rivers. Their dramatic decline in the last decades has become an issue of basin-wide importance that got the attention of the Danube countries and the European Commission. Through the
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