Danube Campaign
Living river -- or transport canal?
Old-fashioned river engineering projects put forward by national governments and supported by the European Union could transform our living Danube into little more than a shipping canal.Over 1,000 km of the Danube could be artificially deepened, regulated, or dammed, destroying many of Europe’s last great river landscapes and wetlands, including the myriad of benefits and services they provide, from drinking water to fish, tourism and recreation.
Transportation is one important use of our river – but not the only one. We want a living river, not just a canal. Fit the ships to the river, not the river to the ships!
Campaign news
05 Mar 2010
EU Danube Strategy to promote basin-wide development
The EU’s initiative to develop a Danube Strategy can help bring together and implement existing policies and legislation to achieve a "green economy" in the Danube basin.
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17 Feb 2010
A decade on, lower Danube exceeds green corridor targets
A decade after four governments agreed to work together to establish a “green corridor” along the entire length of the Lower Danube River, Europe’s most ambitious wetland protection and restoration programme is well ahead of targets for creating protected areas. » Read more
16 Feb 2010
Danube management plan a big step forward
The official adoption of the Danube River Basin Management Plan marks an impoortant step for the management of the Danube, the most international river basin in the world.
Listen to WWF's Wild Talk: Hubert von Goisem tells why he went singing and sailing along the Danube
Stories and photos from the Danube Campaign 2007
- Looking back - the Danube Campaign 2007 [pdf, 382 KB]
