Current progress

This is our progress at October 2023:

• All partners have formed their active working teams;
• The official kick-off of the LIFE WILDisland project took place on May 10-11th 2022 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;
• Uniper completed some obligatory dam rehabilitation works in preparation of the project measures in Ingolstadt, Germany;
• The technical plans for the largest restoration action below the Abwinden-AstenHydro 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 and approved in March 2023;
• The technical plans for forest restoration measures (10x) RO164 island complex, Danube Delta, developed and submitted by Romsilva one year ahead of time;
• First land purchase of 0.82 ha in the cadastral areas of Sap, Medveďov and Kližská Nemá, Slovakia, BROZ;
• JP "Vojvodinašume", Serbia purchased a long-arm excavator in July 2023,  which will be used for sediment removal and dredging for the restoration of old side arms and channels in the area of SRP "Gornje Podunavlje";
• First forest actions have been successfully started by Duna-Ipoly National Park on Tati islands, Hungary, Duna-Drava Nature Park on Debrina islands and Romsilva, Romania on RO164 island complex, Romania;
• A Cooperation Agreement  was signed with the Lower Prut Natural Reserve in May 2023;
• The LIFE WILDisland team attended the 14th Conference of the Party of the Ramsar Conventions on Wetlands and started the preparation of the WILDisland Ramsar Regional Initiative;
• The future Danube WILDisland Ramsar Regional Initiative was presented at the "40 Years Ramsar in Austria" celebration held in September 2023;
• All project partners have started their project site monitoring efforts to assess the hydrological, morphological and biotic impact of the up-coming restoration actions;
• The firstphase of the survey on the socio-economic effect and perception of wilderness protection along the entire Danube was completed in September 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 in July 2022;
• Second cross-border  WILDisland Annual Meeting and Festival was jointly organised by Fertő-Hanság National Park, Hungary and BROZ, Slovakia in October 2023;
• First information signboards were installed on site (Donau-Auen National Park, Austrtia) in August 2023;
• The construction of a 3D installation of Riparian forest habitats  started in the Visitor Center of Persina Nature Park, Bulgaria in August 2023;
• First publications and promotion materials have been published;

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