📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/10/2023
End Date: 30/09/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 20,024,000 €
EU Contribution: 13,416,080 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
LIFE RESTORE for MDD - Preserving and restoring floodplain forest habitats along the Mura-Drava-Danube rivers focuses on conservation and restoration of the largest contiguous riparian forest system in the Danube River Basin. For 5 years, 17 partners from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia will jointly work against the degradation of the priority floodplain forest habitat type HT 91E0* and HT 91F0, by restoring and improving 2,472 ha of floodplains, 45,230 m of water bodies, and by mobilising 966,000 m3 of sediments through river dynamics. The project area is a 2,071.6 km2 large river corridor connecting 17 Natura 2000 sites and further protected areas in the UNESCO 5-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. The sites line up as a continuous string along 700 km of the three rivers. Riparian forests HT 91E0* and HT 91F0 (bad conservation status, trend declining (U2-)) account for 49.4% (435 km2) of the area’s forest structure. River regulation, unsustainable silvicultural practices, spread of IAS, loss of diversity, gene pool depletion, weakly harmonised cross-border restoration planning have the highest negative effects on the status of these habitats.
