Euronatur warns against the project of building the Danube-Sava River Canal in Croatia for involving an immense destruction of natural habitat. This canal is planned to be 61,4 km long and would engulf around 600 million euros.

Within the scope of implementing tourism master plans for Croatia and Montenegro, the German Society for Investment and Development (DEG) has financed four pilot projects. Euronatur has coordinated one of these projects, namely the drafting of the Regional Master Plan for the natural park Lonjsko Polje and the Posavina. In cooperation with experts from CREATOP, a basis for tourism development of the natural park Lonjsko Polje was established. Already 50 accommodations are offered in old log houses along the Sava River, offering tourists the unique possibility to stay in a stork village.

The Regional Master Plan for the Sava River Floodplains is available in German (pdf-file 3,8 MB) or Croatian (pdf-file 3,7 MB). The English translation (pdf-file 2,42 MB) was published in the bulletin of the Natural Park Lonjsko Polje and has been distributed to all households in the park.

In 1999, Croatian Waters received $0.5mio from the World Bank in order to establish an updated report on the old flood protection project "Sava River 2000" dating from 1972. Euronatur acted as international partner for Croatia in implementing this important project for the future of the Sava River floodplains. Based on the analyses, in 1,5 years a new ecological approach to improve the flood control system was elaborated; the protected retention plains and floodplains in the Zagreb area along the Central Sava Basin and its affluents Kupa, Odra and Lonja were doubled from 59.000 ha to 117.000 ha, a surface twice the size of Lake Constance!

The joint publications of Euronatur and Croatian Waters on occasion of the "River Restoration" Congress in Waagening/Netherlands can be downloaded here: Floodprotection 2001, pdf-file (308 kb).

 

 

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