2025 – The 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves in China

2025 – The 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves in China

Every decade, the World Network of Biosphere Reserves comes together to consolidate priorities, strengthen collaboration, and define a Global Action Plan for the future. In 2025, the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves will be held in the city of Hangzhou, in...
2024 – The Dordogne Basin Biosphere Reserve renewed for 10 years

2024 – The Dordogne Basin Biosphere Reserve renewed for 10 years

A periodic review carried out by a consultation process at the watershed scale Between 2022 and 2023, after 10 years of designation, the Dordogne Basin Biosphere Reserve carried out its periodic review in order to request its renewal; a collective diagnosis time which...
Prioksko-Terrasnyi BR, rurality close to the city

Prioksko-Terrasnyi BR, rurality close to the city

The Prioksko-Terrasnyi Biosphere Reserve (BR) is situated in the South-West of Moscow region on the terraced slopes of the left bank of the Oka River Valley. The core area of the biosphere reserve is the Prioksko-Terrasnyi State Nature Reserve. Combination of a...
Cooperation across borders along Mura, Drava and Danube

Cooperation across borders along Mura, Drava and Danube

The 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube (TBR MDD) is an initiative to jointly protect the most natural stretches of Mura and Drava together with the adjacent Danube section, in a cooperation of five countries: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia....
Model for the restoration of wetlands of the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain

Model for the restoration of wetlands of the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain

The Volga-Akhtuba floodplain is the world’s largest river valley. Its potential is actively used by humans and the valley suffers from anthropogenic pressure. Restoration of degraded wetlands on the territory of the Biosphere Reserve has been underway since 2008 as...