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 Austria
 Nutrition and Water Management: Conflicting Interests
Demographic development and changed eating habits take up more and more resources. The research project GERN by the Vienna University of Technology looks into ways out of the dilemma  [more...]



 Let's Take Action on Water!
The Ministry of Environment (BMLFUW) launched an ambitious project in late April, which relates to the First Water Management Plan and involves all stakeholders with an influence on water protection  [more...]



 Optima Lobau: Basis for Balance of Interests
The new area planning tool created within “proVision” identifies incompatibilities and enables decision-makers to prioritise their actions  [more...]



 Austria’s Waters have Good Status
This is revealed in the Austrian Water Quality Report 2006. Yet there are still problems with nitrate and (already forbidden) pesticide substances  [more...]



 Landfill Cleanup Unites Water & Waste Management
Experiences made in the course of the containment and cleanup of the Fischer Landfill over more than fifteen years allow today the export of Austrian expertise!  [more...]



 Visitors Analysis in the National Park
The Lobau is a part of the Danube floodplains, and the Viennese use it as a "green living room".  [more...]



 The River Pielach - a Jewel of Rivers
Often undervalued and not nearly as known as the Danube, the Lech, the Mur or the Salzach, it flows between Annaberg and Melk – the Pielach, one of the last Gardens of Eden for endangered animals and plants in the lower alpine region of Lower Austria. Refuge for many endangered animal and plant species, the Pielach is to be saved from further hazards in the frame of a "redemption action" by the Naturfreunde of Lower Austria.   [more...]



 World Heritage Natural Site Danube-Morava-Thaya Floodplains?
The nature conservation organisation "Alliance for the Nature" wants to have the floodplain region inscribed in the World Heritage List of the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Culture and Natural Heritage.   [more...]



 Regelsbrunner Au Restoration Project
The WWF restoration project is located on the south bank of the Danube, between the villages of Haslau and Regelsbrunn, east of Vienna. The project area is about 10km in length and 500ha in total area, 411ha (approx. 80%) of which, is within the Danube Floodplain (Donau-Auen) National Park.   [more...]



 National Park in the Thaya Valley
For a long time the river Thaya separated two nations; today it is the life blood of the region connecting two national territories.  [more...]



 Administration Changed
On 19 January, 2002, Dr. Helmut Pechlaner, president of WWF Austria, and Dr. Guenther Lutschinger, General Manager of WWF Austria, officially transferred the management of the Regelsbrunner Au to the Nationalpark Donau-Auen GmbH.   [more...]




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