In October 2018, a number of biosphere reserves have been invited by UNESCO to participate in the Wuhan Forum in China, dedicated to the management and protection of the world’s major rivers; the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Danube, the Niger, the Rio...
Eels are an essential part of the Po Delta’s heritage, particularly due to traditional fishing that takes place in this region, the culture it conveys and all the economic and social development it has enabled over the centuries. The decline in European eel...
The 2017 European and North American Biosphere Reserves meeting (EuroMAB 2017) was organized by France in the Dordogne Basin biosphere Reserve. A specific workshop on river management was led by EPIDOR (Dordogne basin BR coordinator) to launch a network within the...
Until recently, the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) of the MAB Programme didn’t have a thematic network on “continental aquatic ecosystems”, even though many biosphere reserves are involved in the management of fluvial ecosystems. In 2015, the Dordogne...
