Case study:Transboundary Management Programme for the planned 5-country Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube” - COOP MDD

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Status	In progress
Project web site	http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/coop-mdd
Themes	Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Land use management - forestry, Monitoring, Spatial planning
Country	Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia
Main contact forename	Mag.(FH) Magdalena
Main contact surname	Wagner
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Contact organisation	World Wide Fund for Nature Austria - WWF Austria
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Partner organisations	Office of the State Government of Styria, Department 13 – Environment and Spatial Planning, Section Nature Conservation; Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation; Municipality Velika Polana; Public institution for nature protection of Virovitica-Podravina County; Balaton-felvidéki National Park Directorate; Public institution for nature protection of Osijek-Baranja County; Public Institution for Management of Protected Natural Areas in the Koprivnica Križevci County; WWF Adria - Association for the protection of nature and conservation of biological diversity; Vojvodina Šume Public Institution; Institute for Nature Conservation of Vojvodina Province
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Spanning across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, the riverine landscape of the lower courses of the Drava and Mura and related Danube sections forms one of Europe’s most important bio-corridors. Since 1993, NGOs and public authorities have cooperated to work towards the protection of this unique landscape as a UNESCO Transboundary Biosphere Reserve “Mura-Drava-Danube” (TBR MDD) - the“Amazon of Europe”.

However, the lack of operational cooperation for harmonising management practices between 12 single protected areas in the 5 TBR countries threatens the ecological integrity of the planned TBR MDD. Coop MDD aims to overcome these obstacles by establishing a strategic and operational framework for transboundary nature protection, restoration and management of the Mura-Drava-Danube river corridor in Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia as the basis of a well-managed TBR MDD.

Through workshops, study visits, capacity building, awareness-raising activities and pilot implementation of concrete actions in the field of restoration, stakeholder participation and environmental education, the cooperation of PA authorities and cross-sectoral stakeholders for management of TBR MDD will be established, and a wider acceptance by local stakeholders, inhabitants and visitors for establishment of TBR MDD will be achieved.

The main project output - the Transboundary Management Programme for River-Dynamic Corridor Development - will be taken up by the 5-country ministerial Coordination Board as their baseline strategic and operational work programme towards establishment of the TBR MDD.

This will set a solid foundation for-long term functional implementation of the 1 million-hectare, 700 km long TBR MDD in the context of transboundary nature conservation, making it Europe's largest protected river corridor and world's first penta-lateral UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

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