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For seventh time representatives of the 47th countries that have

August 17, 2023

The Bern Convention Has Rejected the Greens’ Request for Stopping Struma Highway Project For seventh time representatives of the 47th …


Uspjeh aktivista: Zaštita Neretve uvrštena u Preporuke za BiH

December 2, 2022

Konkretni sporni projekti su: HE Ulog, HES Gornja Neretva (Faza I i Faza II) na teritoriji RS, kao i HE Bjelimići, PHP Bjelimići i …


Бернската конвенция отхвърли исканията на зелените за спиране на АМ Струма през Кресненското дефиле

December 2, 2022

За седми пореден път представителите на 47-те страни, подписали Бернската конвенция, отхвърлиха исканията на българските еколози за спиране …


An ambitious vision for European wildlife. Suggestions to the draft Vision and Strategic Plan for the Bern Convention for the period to 2030.

May 21, 2021

Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEE) and CEE Bankwatch Network submitted joint suggestions to the draft Vision and Strategic Plan for the period to 2030 of the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. The final text


Comments on the Nenskra supplementary environmental and social studies

January 15, 2018

The revised supplementary studies for the Nenskra project fail to properly perform a cost/benefit analysis. It lacks an assessment of the energy efficiency alternatives, the environmental externalities, the opportunity costs and even an economic inte


Bern Convention: Macedonian government is urged to halt construction of hydropower plants in national park

December 11, 2017

Plans for 17 hydropower plants throughout Macedonia’s Mavrovo National Park must be immediately suspended, so the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention ruled at its annual meeting last week.


Nenskra HPP poses possible threat to Georgian biodiversity hot spot

December 4, 2017

In January 2016 the Georgian government decided to exclude from the Bern Convention’s candidate Emerald Site “Svaneti 1” all territories that are part of the valleys of the Nenskra and Nakra rivers which are relevant for the construction of the Nenksra


Déjà vu in biodiversity: public banks pitted against international wildlife convention

November 15, 2017

Europe’s wildlife guardian has sent a warning to Georgia over changes to a protected area in the Caucasus mountains. International lenders are interested in financing hydro developments in the region.


Lynxed in: EBRD still can’t say no to destructive Macedonian dam

December 17, 2015

The latest blow to the highly controversial 68 megawatt Boškov Most hydropower plant, that has attracted EUR 65 million in financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), was dealt in early December by the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention, the European wildlife treaty.


Bern Convention Committee to decide fate of Balkan lynx and Boskov Most hydropower plant in Macedonia

November 30, 2015

The critically endangered population of the Balkan lynx (Lynx lynx balcanicus) may be getting a new lease on life this week after being threatened by planned hydropower constructions in its core area of reproduction.


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