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  1. The Living Danube Tour stops in Serbia in August
  2. The Living Danube Tour goes around Romania in June
  3. Old-Drava project site launched

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  2. Show you care about the Danube, apply for ESFLP
  3. Participate in a regatta to save Europe's Amazon

Did you know

  1. The Danube is the world’s most international river.
  2. More than 80% of the length of the Danube has been regulated.
  3. Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet's accessible freshwater – more than twice that of industry (23%), and dwarfing municipal use (8%).

Did you know ...

  • The Tisza is the largest tributary of the Danube.

  • The Upper Danube is interrupted by dams or weirs every 16 km on average.

  • Over 700 dams and weirs have been built along the Danube and its main tributaries.

  • More than 80% of the length of the Danube has been regulated.

  • The Lower Danube Green Corridor Agreement was and still is the most ambitious wetland protection and restoration initiative in Europe.

  • 5,000 animal species live along the Danube.

  • 100 fish species live in the Danube.

  • There is more life in one acre of a healthy wetland than there is in one acre of almost any other kind of habitat.

  • The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga.

  • Water purification through nutrient retention of Danube floodplains is worth an estimated €369 million per year.

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