➰ MURA -DRAVA - DANUBE (MDD) BIOSPHERE RESERVE.
➰UNESCO has designated Mura-Drava-Danube (MDD) as the world's first 'five-country biosphere reserve'.
➰ABOUT
➰The biosphere reserve covers 700 kilometres of the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and stretches across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia.
➰The total area of the reserve — a million hectares — in the so-called ‘Amazon of Europe’, makes it the largest riverine protected area on the continent.
➰ The reserve is home to floodplain forests, gravel and sand banks, river islands, oxbows and meadows.
➰ Home to continental Europe’s highest density of breeding white-tailed eagle (more than 150 pairs), as well as endangered species such as the little tern, black stork, otters, beavers and sturgeons.
➰ Also an important annual resting and feeding place for more than 250,000 migratory birds, according to WWF.
➰ Almost 900,000 people live in the biosphere reserve.
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