PROJECT ACTIVITY RESULTS 
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| Focus groups held with stakeholders on the Vrljika and Jadro rivers As part of the project Improve River LIFE - Improving degree of conservation of Natura 2000 target species and habitat types through improvement of river connectivity, two focus groups (group interviews) were held on November 12, 2024, with stakeholders from the public, private, and civil sectors related to the Vrljika and Jadro rivers...MORE |
 | Conference “LIFE Programme – Catalyst for Green Transition in Croatia” A LIFE Programme conference took place on 17 September 2024 at the Sheraton Hotel in Zagreb. Around a hundred participants from various sectors joined in to learn about achievements so far and potentials of the LIFE Programme in financing green transition in Croatia... MORE
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 | National seminar on removal of barriers in Croatia The first national seminar on the removal of barriers in Croatia was held on 23 May 2024 in the Plitvice Lakes National Park. The seminar has brought together all the relevant stakeholders from the public, private and NGO sectors with the aim of forming a network of organisations, institutions and experts dealing with the issue of removing artificial barriers in watercourses... MORE |
 | Nature Conservation Day and International Day for Biological Diversity The Nature Conservation Day and the International Day for Biological Diversity were marked on 22 May 2024 in Maksimir Park in Zagreb, Croatia. The event designed for the general public was organized by the Public Institution “Priroda Grada Zagreba”... MORE |
 | Implementation of Project Activities: Monitoring of Invasive and Alien Fish Species on the Vrljika and Jadro Rivers As part of the "Improve River LIFE" project, we conducted monitoring of invasive fish species on the Vrljika and Jadro rivers. Despite challenging weather conditions, our expert team successfully tackled field tasks, allowing us to gain a detailed understanding of the presence and distribution of invasive species in these watercourses...MORE |
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World Water Day World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993 to bring the attention of people around the world to the importance of conserving freshwater supplies. The goal of World Water Day is to warn and raise awareness of the 2.2 billion...MORE |
 | Presentation of improve river life project at the sap project users' networking meeting On February 29th, 2024, we had the extraordinary opportunity to present our project at the networking meeting of SAP project users titled ''Results and Impacts of LIFE Projects in Croatia''. This event allowed us to share our experiences and goals with other users of the LIFE program, as well as to become acquainted with... MORE |
 | Project area field trip The first joint field trip with all project partners was held on 6 and 7 February 2024 on the rivers Jadro and Vrljika. 18 experts, representatives of partners from Croatian Wters (state legal entity for water management), the Public Institution Sea and Karst, the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb, and the Institute for Nature and Environment and Protection of the Ministry of the Economy and Sustainable Development attended the field trip, as well as the meeting held after the trip... MORE |
 | The Improve River LIFE kick-off conference The Improve River LIFE project initial conference was held on 2 February 2024, at the "Hidden Dalmatia" Visitor Center in Dugopolje. The project activities and expected results were presented in front of forty participants. The conference participants, under the expert guidance of the project partners, also visited locations on the Jadro River where the activities of water barriers removal will be carried out... MORE |
CONTACT
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| Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition Radnička cesta 80/7 10 000 Zagreb | +385 (1) 4886 840 improve.riverlife@mzozt.hr |
