EuroNatur in the press, radio and television

This is what the press reports about our topics:

• Balkan Rivers

  • National Geographic, 12.7.21: Will dams spoil one of Europe’s last wild rivers?
     
  • Exit news, 19.6.21: Bosnian Women Win Award after Occupying Bridge for 503 Days to Prevent Hydropower Plant Construction
     
  • Exit news, 9.6.21: The Battle for the Vjosa River Continues With Scientific Exploration of its “Precious” Tributaries
     
  • euronews.green, 31.5.21: Campaigners continue to fight to keep Europe's last wild river truly wild
     
  • Exit news, 30.5.21: Court Decision Halts Dam Construction on Albania’s Vjosa River
     
  • Exit news, 28.4.21: International Organisations: Albania’s New Government Must Protect Vjosa River Now
     
  • Exit news, 27.4.21: Residents of Kelcyre and Permet Protest Against Shell Oil Exploration on Banks of Vjosa River
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 26.4.21: Legal toolkit produced to help activists protect rivers from hydropower projects
     
  • euronews, 15.4.21: Is hydropower the controversial solution to Europe’s clean energy problem?
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 5.4.21: Rama: No chance hydropower plants would be built on Vjosa river
     
  • Exit news, 23.3.21: Patagonia CEO: Hydropower Plants are not Green, Albanian Government Stop Decimating Balkan Rivers
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 3.3.21: Vjosa Forever film release: Future of Europe’s largest unspoilt river hangs in balance
     
  • SAVI-Study: Why Albania Should Shift Away From Hydropower and Preserve the Last Free-Flowing River in Europe
     
  • Exit news, 15.2.21: Comment: Is the Tide Turning on Balkan Hydropower Projects?
     
  • Exit news, 11.2.21: Environmental Groups Pressure Albania to Save Europe’s Last Wild River
     
  • Balkan Insight, 10.2.2021: Albania Urged to Save Wild River by Proclaiming National Park
     
  • CBS News, 26.1.2021: Lake of garbage: Every winter pollution is swept from overflowing landfills into Balkan waterways
     
  • bne Intellinews, 26.1.2021: BALKAN BLOG: Only better waste management can clean rivers of trash
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 18.1.2021: Montenegro stops licensing new small hydropower plants
     
  • IISD, December 2020: Why Albania Should Shift Away From Hydropower and Preserve the Last Free-Flowing River in Europe
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 3.12.2020: Montenegro’s new cabinet to ban small hydropower, revise concessions
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 19.11.2020: Federation of BiH to scrap feed-in tariffs for small hydropower plants from 2021
     
  • Euractive, 6.10.2020: Activists win battle, not war, against hydropower in the Western Balkans
     
  • Euronews, 26.9.2020: What is the Blue Heart of Europe and why does it need saving?
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 23.9.2020: Leonardo DiCaprio backs campaign to protect Bosnian rivers
     
  • Osservatorio, 28.7.2020: Hydroelectric power in Bosnia: between moratorium and abuse during lockdown
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 3.7.2020: Parliament of Republic of Srpska rejects motion to ban on small hydropower plants
     
  • Sarajevo Times, 1.7.2020: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina bans Construction of small Hydropower Plants
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 19.6.2020: 40 artists back Blue Heart campaign to protect Balkan Rivers on occasion of World Music Day
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 23.4.2020: Investors taking advantage of corona crisis to build five small HPPs in BiH
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 29.1.2020: Blue Heart of Europe – hydropower is destroying environment for hardly any energy
     
  • The Washington Post, 3.12.2019: One of Europe’s last untamed rivers is threatened by dams
     
  • The Guardian, 28.11.2019: New generation of hydroelectric dams 'threaten Europe's rivers'
     
  • The New York Times, 28.11.2019: Campaigners Call on New EU Commission to End 'Hydropower Madness'
     
  • Deutsche Welle, 23.10.2019: In the Balkans, locals fight to save their wild flowing rivers from hydropower
     
  • Balkan Insight, 10.7.2019: Balkan Eco-Activists Protest Against Hydro-Power Plants
     
  • Tirana Times, 22.5.2019: Environmental risks arise from hydro-plant in Vjosa riverbed
     
  • exit, 2.3.2019: Disillusionment with Hydropower in the Balkans

• Primary and old-growth forests in Romania

  • The New York Times, 15.3.2021: The Making of a ‘European Yellowstone’
     
  • Deutsche Welle, 28.1.2021: Living Planet: Romania's forest defenders under attack by "wood mafia"
     
  • Today Headline, 29.11.2020: Illegal Logging Threatens Ancient Old Growth Forests of Romania
     
  • Al Jazeera, 26.11.2020: ‘Timber Mafia’ threatens the future of Romania’s ancient forests
     
  • Emerging Europe, 21.9.2020: Emerging Europe’s primeval forests are in danger
     
  • Voxeurop, 3.9.2020: How timber smugglers are destroying Europe’s last primeval forests. Part I: The Romanian Eldorado
     
  • Habitat, 19.6.2020: Le ultime foreste primitive d’Europa sono in pericolo. E anche chi le difende
     
  • OCCPR, 7.5.2020: Oak and Omerta in Romania: Saving the Lungs of Europe
     
  • Osservatorio, 6.4.2020: Timber mafia and deforestation in Romania
     
  • euronews, 16.3.2020: Romania's virgin forests ravaged by 'wood mafia'
     
  • META, 13.2.2020: Illegal logging in Romania must stop, says the European Commission
     
  • euronews, 13.2.2020: Brussels threatens Romania over illegal logging in primary forests
     
  • France 24, 12.2.2020: EU Commission warns Romania over illegal logging
     
  • OZB, 4.2.2020: Hope for Romania’s forests
     
  • Le Courrier, 2.2.2020: La dernière forêt vierge d’Europe
     
  • The Guardian, 8.1.2020: Violence escalates as Romania cracks down on illegal timber trade
     
  • Deutsche Welle, 9.12.2019: Romania's forests under threat
     
  • Ecologist, 7.11.2019: Forest rangers killed in Romania
     
  • Vatican News, 5.11.2019: Romania sees massive anti-logging protests after killings
     
  • EU Observer, 4.11.2019: Romanians demand political action to stop illegal logging
     
  • Universul.net, 3.11.2019: Thousands in Romania protest illegal logging and deaths of forest rangers
     
  • BBC, 21.10.2019: Romania forest murder as battle over logging turns violent
     
  • Emerging Europe, 12.9.2019: Environmental groups in new bid to halt illegal logging in Romania
     
  • Politico, 10.9.2019: Environmental activists take their forest fight against Romania to Brussels
     
  • Balkan Insight, 10.9.2019: Activists Demand EU Action Over Romania’s Vanishing Forests
     
  • The Guardian, 4.3.2019: Europe’s forests threatened by biodiversity collapse, warn campaigners
     
  • BBC, 29.11.2018: The Romanian forest that's disappearing
     
  • Newsbeezer Romania, 12.11.2018: Romania risks a violation of the environment

• European Green Belt

  • Emerging Europe, 28.10.2020: Unity in the Western Balkans is vital to preserving the biodiversity of the Sharr Mountains
     
  • Balkan Green Energy News, 28.4.2020: Shar Planina conservation values
     
  • Euractiv, 3.10.2019: Long read: From Cold War death strip to pristine ecological habitat
     
  • BBC future, 22.8.2019: The wildlife heaven in a Cold War 'death strip'

• Migratory Birds

  • exit news, 20.4.2021: Albanian Government Signs Agreement to Build Airport in Protected Area
     
  • exit news, 15.3.2021: The Impact of the Vlora Airport on Albania’s Protected Narta Lagoon
     
  • euronews, 12.3.2021: Plans to build an airport in Albania threatens migrating bird flyways
     
  • exit news, 1.2.2021: 36 Environmental Organizations Ask Albanian Government to Drop Construction of Vlora Airport
     
  • Mongabay, 1.11.2019: Grassroots campaign saves major wetland in Montenegro
     
  • BirdLife International, 18.4.2019: North Macedonia’s Stork Villages: where birds and people live side by side

• Large Carnivores

  • Reuters, 1.7.2021: North Macedonia national park offers lifeline for endangered lynx
     
  • euronews, 30.12.2020: Why Romania's new environment minister could be bad news for Europe's biggest brown bear population
     
  • National Geographic, 6.5.2020: World’s rarest seal finds refuge on notorious prison island
     
  • Exit - Explain Albania, 26.6.2020: In Albania, the Last Balkan Lynx at the Mercy of Poaching
     
  • The Times, 11.4.2020: Lynx claws its way back from verge of extinction