Balkan Rivers Project – Rick Cunjak recently returned from a trip to Bosnia and Croatia where he is trying to initiate a river conservation project with regional partners. The Neretva River, a 200 km river flowing from the karstic mountains of Herzegovina to the Adriatic Sea is one of the largest river basins in the eastern Adriatic, and one of the most important, economically and culturally, to the future rebuilding of the Balkans. Still largely pristine in its headwaters (except for introduced rainbow trout !) and with an ecologically important delta (a designated Ramsar site), the basin is also subject to many anthropogenic impacts. Rick is hoping to forge agreements between UNB-CRI and the Universities of Zagreb and Sarajevo, and to partner with local NGO’s and government agencies to ensure the conservation of the natural resources in the basin.
December 01, 2006
Recent Happenings - Cunjak Lab
Balkan Rivers Project – Rick Cunjak recently returned from a trip to Bosnia and Croatia where he is trying to initiate a river conservation project with regional partners. The Neretva River, a 200 km river flowing from the karstic mountains of Herzegovina to the Adriatic Sea is one of the largest river basins in the eastern Adriatic, and one of the most important, economically and culturally, to the future rebuilding of the Balkans. Still largely pristine in its headwaters (except for introduced rainbow trout !) and with an ecologically important delta (a designated Ramsar site), the basin is also subject to many anthropogenic impacts. Rick is hoping to forge agreements between UNB-CRI and the Universities of Zagreb and Sarajevo, and to partner with local NGO’s and government agencies to ensure the conservation of the natural resources in the basin.
