Mura-Drava-Danube (MDD) was declared as the worlds first five-country Biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Highlights:
The biosphere reserve covers seven hundred kilometres of the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and stretches across , Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia.
The complete vicinity of the reserve is a million hectares – in the so-called Amazon of Europe, which is now the greatest riverine included area in Europe.
The biosphere represented an essential contribution to the European Green Deal (Climate motion plan) and contributed to the implementation of the European Union Biodiversity Strategy in the Mura-Drava-Danube region.
The strategys aim is to revitalise 25,000 km of rivers and guard 30% of the European Unions land area through 2030.
The vicinity is one of the richest in Europe in terms of Species diversity. It is domesticated to floodplain forests, gravel and sand banks, river islands, oxbows and meadows.