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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
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...
2019 – Po Delta International School on Birdwatching and Ecotourism
From Monday 7th to Friday 11th October 2019, the Po Delta Biosphere Reserve (Italy) will host the first Po Delta International School on Birdwatching and Ecotourism, an international school with the aim of bringing and sharing the many experiences connected with...
2019 – CAE EuroMAB working group
Representatives from the Po Delta and Dordogne Basin biosphere reserves organised a second workshop of the « Continental Aquatic Ecosystems MAB Network » during the EuroMAB19 meeting that took place in Dublin. Fourteen representatives of ten Biosphere Reserves...
2019 – CAE MAB booklet
Dordogne basin biosphere Reserve have edited a short booklet about / with 9 Biosphere Reserves involved in the CAE MAB Network. It presents the objectives of the CAE MAB network, its members and their main actions. This booklet was distributed to the participants at...
2018 – Great Rivers Forum in Wuhan
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...
2018 – Traditional fishing and eel conservation in the European Biosphere Reserves
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...
2017 – CAE EuroMAB working group
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...
2016 – A survey to identify the BRs concerned with continental aquatic ecosystems
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 basin...