River reserve

摘要

Five countries have agreed to create what would be Europe's largest protected river-based ecosystem: a cross-border nature reserve encompassing the Mura, the Drava and the Danube. Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia signed the declaration on 25 March. Parts of this biodiversity hotspot are already protected in the individual nations, but the group hopes - in two or three years - to have a larger 800,000-hectare area declared a 'biosphere reserve' by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris.