This is our progress at December 2022:

• All partners have formed their active working teams;
• The official kick-off of the LIFE WILDisland project took place on May 10-11th in Vienna, Austria;
• All partners have started the planning, preparation and legal permits for their direct conservation measures;
• The approval plans and documents for the Mouth Ussel project area in Germany have been finalized and submitted by Uniper to the relevant authorities;
• The technical plans for the largest restoration action below the Abwinden-Asten  Hydro Power Plant, Austria have been prepared by Verbund and submitted for approval a whole year earlier than originally provided;
• The detailed geodetic survey and riverbed survey of the Korpádi island and the technical plans required to achieve the water construction permission have been elaborated by Aduvizig;
• The technical plans for forest restoration measures (10x) RO164 island complex, Danube Delta, developed and submitted by Romsilva one year ahead of time, so preparatory on-site activities (removal and destruction of stumps and invasive alien vegetation, ploughing, disking) have already been started;
• First land purchase of 0.82 ha in the cadastral areas of Sap, Medveďov and Kližská Nemá, Slovakia, BROZ;
• First forest actions have been successfully started by Duna-Ipoly National Park on Tati islands, Hungary and by Duna-Drava Nature Park on Debrina islands;
• The LIFE WILDisland team has attended the 14th Conference of the Party of the Ramsar Conventions on Wetlands and has started the preparation of the WILDisland Ramsar Regional Initiative;
• All project partners have started developing their project site monitoring strategies to assess the hydrological, morphological and biotic impact of the up-coming restoration actions;
• A questionnaire to assess the socio-economic effect and perception of wilderness protection along the entire Danube has been set up and the survey will be launched in the spring of 2023;
• There have been a number of cross-border field visits and experience exchange by the project partners to optimize their own planning and conservation;
• LIFE WILDisland has been presented on a number of international, national and local conferences, meetings and events;
• First cross-border WILDisland Festival in Mohács (“Washing the Danube festival”, co-organised with City of Mohács) was jointly organised by Duna-Drava Nature Park, Hungary and Kopacki rit Nature Park, Croatia;
• First publications and promotion materials have been published;

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