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
29 Feb 2008
Crucial milestone for Danube’s future: Calarasi-Braila navigation project
Work on the Romanian navigation project is set to begin in April 2008. A recently agreed step-wise approach is supposed to compensate for the very poor quality of the project's design. » Read more
17 Jan 2008
WWF criticizes Austrian plans to develop the Danube as a waterway.
Today the Austrian State Secretary for Transport and the director of viadonau announced the planned measures of the Austrian National Action Plan on Danube Navigation for 2008. WWF sticks to its criticism of the current plans to develop the Danube as a waterway. » Read more
15 Jan 2008
Open letter to Austrian State Secretary for Transport regarding Danube infrastructure plans
WWF prepared an open letter to State Secretary for Transport Christa Kranzl yesterday regarding statements made about the Danube navigation project east of Vienna. Despite repeated attempts by WWF to clarify its position of not supporting the project, Kranzl appeared on a daily news show and reported that the environmental NGO was a supporter of a project. » Read more
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]
