{"id":154463,"date":"2021-12-17T23:08:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=154463"},"modified":"2021-12-18T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T12:17:18","slug":"worlds-first-5-country-biosphere-reserve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-first-5-country-biosphere-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"world\u2019s first 5-country biosphere reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About the Reserve:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNESCO designated <strong>Mura-Drava-Danube<\/strong> (MDD) as the world\u2019s first \u2018five-country biosphere reserve.<\/li>\n<li>It stretches across<strong> Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The total area of the reserve \u2014 a million hectares \u2014 in the so-called<strong> \u2018Amazon of Europe<\/strong>\u2019, makes it the<strong> largest riverine protected area on the continent<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154464\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154464 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MDD.jpg?resize=639%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MDD.jpg?w=1484&amp;ssl=1 1484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MDD.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MDD.jpg?resize=1024%2C667&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MDD.jpg?resize=768%2C500&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source-WWF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Rivers<\/strong>-The biosphere reserve covers 700 kilometres of the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is home to continental Europe\u2019s highest density of breeding <strong>white-tailed eagle<\/strong>, as well as endangered species such as the little tern, black stork, otters, beavers and sturgeons.<\/li>\n<li>it is also an important annual resting and feeding place for more than 250,000<strong> migratory birds,<\/strong> according to WWF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Significance of the reserve:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reserve is inhabited by almost 900,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>It is home to floodplain forests, gravel and sand banks, river islands, oxbows and meadows.<\/li>\n<li>The biosphere \u201crepresented an important contribution to the European Green Deal (climate action plan) and contributed to the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy in the Mura-Drava-Danube region.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>The strategy\u2019s aim is to revitalise 25,000 km of rivers and protect 30% of the European Union\u2019s land area by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Reserve: UNESCO designated Mura-Drava-Danube (MDD) as the world\u2019s first \u2018five-country biosphere reserve. It stretches across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia. The total area of the reserve \u2014 a million hectares \u2014 in the so-called \u2018Amazon of Europe\u2019, makes it the largest riverine protected area on the continent. Rivers-The biosphere reserve covers 700&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-first-5-country-biosphere-reserve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">world\u2019s first 5-country biosphere reserve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}