WWF first started conservation work in Hungray in 1986. Later, in 1995, WWF created an offical Programme Office in the country. In 2002 the WWF Hungary National Office was created.
Founded: November 2002
WWF Hungary office
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WWF Conservation Projects in Hungary
One Europe, more nature
Today, more and more Europeans want to buy products that have little impact on the environment. Increasingly, many won’t buy unless nature is protecte...
Reconnecting the Danube
The Danube River is one of Europe’s largest rivers, flowing over 2,857km from Germany’s Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores of the Black...
Conservation in the Danube-Carpathian
The Danube-Carpathian region stretches from Germany in the west to Romania and Ukraine in the East, from Poland in the north to Bulgaria in the south....
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EU Danube Strategy to promote basin-wide development
The EU’s initiative to develop a Danube Strategy can help bring together and implement existing policies and legislation to achieve a "green economy" in the Danube basin.
A decade on, lower Danube exceeds green corridor targets
A decade after four governments agreed to work together to establish a “green corridor” along the entire length of the Lower Danube River, Europe’s most ambitious wetland protection and restoration programme is well ahead of targets for creating protected areas.
Danube management plan a big step forward
The official adoption of the Danube River Basin Management Plan marks an impoortant step for the management of the Danube, the most international river basin in the world.
100,000 Danube citizens sign petition for a living river
WWF, BUND and other environmental NGOs have collected more than 100,000 signatures of concerned citizens, who have signed a petition against navigation projects threatening the environment. The signatures were handed over to the ICPDR President Mitja Bricelj today.
EU legislation will promote green homes, green economy
The new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive agreed Novemer 18, 2009 by the European Council and Parliament represents a crucial step in efforts to limit climate change, enhance energy security and generate jobs as well as a green economy in Central and Southeastern Europe.
NGOs join forces to save a living Danube threatened by inland navigation plans
Ruse – The most prominent environmental NGOs active in the Danube basin stand united in their opposition to plans that aim at improving inland navigation at the expense of nature and local economies. On the occasion of an international workshop taking place on the banks of the Danube River in Ruse, Bulgaria, sponsored by WWF, the global conservation organisation, and IAD, the International Association for Danube Research, NGOs adopted their common position “Save the Danube as a lifeline! Steps towards sustainable navigation” and discussed with local and park authorities as well as scientists recent findings and how to cooperate further on the issue.
Croatia and Hungary to establish Europe´s largest river protected area - 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain
Croatia and Hungary signed today a declaration to establish a Trans-Boundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that will protect their shared biodiversity hotspot along the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers. This paves the way to create Europe’s largest river protection area.
Danube Day -- fears amidst the celebrations
Amidst this year's celebrations of Danube Day, WWF is concerned about persisting threats to the Danube as a living river. Government and EU plans to remove “bottlenecks” for navigation could impact up to 1,000 km of the river’s most natural sections.
Last shots come in for world's largest nature photo shoot
A striking symmetry of wings as two gulls attack a grey heron on the Elbe in Germany. An ibex caught negotiating an absolutely impossible slope in Spain. A Hungarian bee eater of spectacular plumage snapped catching a bumblebee nearly as colourful.
5 years on, EU accession scores some wins for nature conservation
Five years after the EU’s “big bang” enlargement to the East and South, some wins have been scored for nature conservation in the new member states.
