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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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mi2 of the Danube Backwaters in 2014 (cover photo). Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.” mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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Shore Larks were therefore very high on my agenda during the last few days of the year as I found myself on the island Sylt, where they can frequently be found in salt marshes along the coast. Then came the split and the reflection, making me realize I had not encountered this suddenly-species since around the year 1998, almost 20 years ago!

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