Despite EU regulation to curb new hydropower, 8,785 projects are in the pipeline in Europe – mainly in the Alps and the Balkans – in addition to the 21,387 existing ones. More than a quarter are planned in protected areas. This puts even more pressure on fragile freshwater biodiversity, says new study commissioned by Riverwatch, […]
For Bosnian guide Anes Halkic, the Una is not just a river. It is his life. In “Una – The One”, we follow him in his fight against dams while searching for Hucho on the fly with Austrian guides Christof Menz and Uwe Rieder.
Nataša Crnković works with the Centre for Environment on nature conservation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, advocating for protected rivers with a focus on engaging local communities. The country has 244 rivers, but with plans for 300 new hydropower projects, nearly all of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s rivers will be impeded, some with dozens of dams. […]
Hydropower dams and diversions are not a clean, green energy source, but rather the only “renewable” energy source sending species to extinction, displacing people and exacerbating climate change. Learn More More than 3,000 hydropower dams and river-draining diversions are either proposed or in the process of being built on the wild rivers of the Balkans—the […]
The Vjosa, which flows 270 kilometers without barriers from the Pindus Mountains to the Adriatic Sea, is just one of many rivers in the Balkans region that is being threatened by a tidal wave of more than 2,700 new hydropower dam projects. “Jo diga ne Pocem! Jo diga ne Pocem!” The rallying cry repeated as […]