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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. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1

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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

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Were the hydrologists of 1920s worried where the fish will spawn, Wild Boars fatten and eagles nest? And there is only one certain way to protect the lower parts of the city from floods: let the river spread and flood some other area, before it reaches the city. Yet, the Beljarica remained open to flooding.

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Birding Beljarica in August

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I started the campaign for the protection of Beljarica, raising public awareness and collecting more than 10,000 petition signatures, not only because of its Eurasian Otters , White-tailed Eagles , Black Storks , Icterine and Eastern Olivaceous Warblers , etc., but because this large spillway protects the city from flooding.

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