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

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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. mi2 of the Danube Backwaters in 2014 (cover photo). White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica.

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Beljarica Backwaters are finally protected!!

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Belgrade City Environmental Secretariat accepted the initiative and the Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia produced the study and the official proposal for the protection of 18.6 sq mi of the Danube Backwaters in 2014. sq km / 7.2 sq mi of the proposed reserve was announced.