Mura-Drava-Danube: World’s First ‘Five-Country Biosphere Reserve’
Recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as part of its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, declared the Mura-Drava-Danube (MDD) as the world’s first ‘five-country biosphere reserve’.
About MDD
- Stretching across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, the biosphere reserve covers 700km of the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers and a total area of almost 1 million hectares in the so-called ‘Amazon of Europe’ - making it the largest riverine protected area on the continent.
- It brings together the Lower Mura Valley Biosphere Reserve (Austria), the Mura-Drava-Danube Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (Croatia and Hungary), the BačkoPodunavlje Biosphere Reserve ....
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