Planting trees for the 5-country Biosphere Reserve

Planting trees for the 5-country Biosphere Reserve

We conducted another volunteer action for our biosphere reserve! Together with students of the Biosphere School FS Halbenrain, the Austrian partner RMSO planted typical trees in the floodplain forest of the Biosphere Reserve Lower Mura-Valley in the municipality of...
Volunteering for sand martins

Volunteering for sand martins

This weekend, IRSNC partnered up with DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia and gathered 25 volunteers on the Mura River to provide sand martins a new breeding site! The volunteers cleaned almost 100 meters of the steep bank and prepared the site for these special birds,...
Regional Expert of Biosphere Reserve Lower-Mura-Valley

Regional Expert of Biosphere Reserve Lower-Mura-Valley

Raising awareness and transferring knowledge about the Natural Jewel of the UNESCO 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube is one of the main goals of the lifelineMDD project, so the partners from Austria RMSO presented their national training called “Regional...
Excavation works on the pilot site in Hrastje Mota have started

Excavation works on the pilot site in Hrastje Mota have started

Excavation works on the pilot site in Hrastje Mota have started. Almost all the trees were previously cut down on the area so the field would be ready for excavation. The rocks will be removed from the embankment first, in order to excavate a canal into which they...
Conservation award goes to a tireless fighter for Mura river

Conservation award goes to a tireless fighter for Mura river

Andreja Slameršek from Slovenia receives the Wolfgang Staab Nature Conservation Prize for protecting the Mura and Sava rivers Eight hydropower plants were to be built on the Mura in Slovenia. The construction of the dams would have destroyed more than 50 kilometers of...