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No Money. No Dams.

In June, we delivered 123,529 of your signatures to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Together with local activists and groups, we continue to demand that banks immediately stop funding projects that will damage these incredible wild rivers, while also increasing support for energy efficiency and truly clean renewable energy. Petition remains open.

Save the Blue Heart of Europe

The decimation of the wild Balkan rivers must stop. International banks have poured millions of euros into destructive hydropower development in the region, when the movement to free our rivers and remove dams is growing worldwide. More than 3,000 devastating hydropower projects are planned in the Balkans—nearly every river in the region will be impacted.

These dams and river-draining diversions will destroy Albania’s Vjosa—the largest and last untamed river in Europe—send the already threatened Danube salmon to extinction in Bosnia and Herzegovina, jeopardize the survival of the critically endangered Balkan lynx in Macedonia, displace culturally significant communities, and destroy freshwater resources throughout the region.

The world needs healthy rivers and lower impact energy options exist beyond hydropower. Tell the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Investment Bank (EIB), and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) they must halt their Balkan hydropower investments before the last wild rivers in Europe are irreversibly destroyed.

A Bankwatch report from January 2018 verifies an estimated 727 million Euros of loans provided by international banks for the Balkan dams and diversions.

Resources

A robust assemblage of NGOs, scientific papers and supporting data inform the fight for Europe’s last wild rivers.

Supporting Petitions

Change.org

North America

NGO Partners
EuroNatur

Germany

RiverWatch

Austria

EcoAlbania

Albania

Center for Environment (CZZS)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Eco-sense

Macedonia

CSBNP

Croatia

Bankwatch

Czech Republic

Front 21/42

Macedonia

Film & Photography Partners
Andrew Burr

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The Dam Truth

Dams are Dirty and so is the hydropower they create.

Learn

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Discover the Blue Heart

The Balkan region has preserved the last wild rivers on the European continent.

Explore

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Save the Blue Heart

Tell International Banks to Stop Investing in the Destruction of Europe’s Last Wild Rivers.

Take Action

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