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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Since August 23rd 2022 it has been considered a part of the newly protected Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube Reserve. The initiative to protect this area was launched in 2010. And in August 2022, Beljarica and the wider Danube Backwaters finally became officially protected. I am glad it is finally protected.

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Protection Serbia Protesters Protest 260

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JUNE 3, 2021

And the process lasted for almost a year, until 25 ha were buried under an 8 metres thick layer of rubbish. When Egret started a protest camp, blocking the lorries from entering the newly created dumping site, a few independent media covered the events, but the majority of state-subsidised (read: controlled) media remained deaf and blind.

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Otters Protesting Protest Protesters 259

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JUNE 17, 2021

Also, it is a part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia. White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Young Roe Deer buck in Beljarica. Fingers crossed.

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Serbia Boars Deer Otters 273

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In case you missed the latest news cycle, the seven armed antigovernment protesters thugs pictured above were acquitted last Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges stemming from that takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter. From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy.

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Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 149

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APRIL 13, 2015

Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank. D’Arnaud’s Barbet displaying atop a fencepost. A young Hamar woman. The lovely Bruce’s Green Pigeon.

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