Geography of Vojvodina

OBEDSKA BARA - Serbia has great potential for eco-tourism, but only 6 percent of its territory is protected, while the standard in the EU is 11 percent of a country's territory, Eco-Dev project coordinator Sophie Kekic said on Thursday.

The Government will earmark 50 million lei for removing the effects of floods in the Gorj, Valcea, Arges, Olt, Teleorman and Prahova counties, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Thursday.

Victor Ponta also added that, if necessary, funds will also be approved for Timis and Caras-Severin counties, after some assessments are carried out first.

Montenegro to open consulate in Sremski Karlovci

PODGORICA -- The government of Montenegro made a decision to open consulates in Sremski Karlovci, a town in Serbia, as well as in Istanbul, Turkey.

NOVI SAD - This year's Danubius Young Scientist Award for Serbia has gone to Sonja Kaisarevic, the Novi Sad-based Faculty of Mathematics (PMF) announced on Wednesday.

Kaisarevic received the award, together with other young scientists from the Danube region, at the ceremony in Vienna on June 25.

BELGRADE - The Danube Day campaign, conducted jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection - Republic Directorate for Water and the Coca Cola System, will this year be aimed at raising funds for the flood-affected regions, the organizers announced on Monday.

FM to attend third annual EUSDR meeting

BELGRADE -- First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will head the Serbian delegation at the Third Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR).

The meeting is taking place in Vienna Thursday and Friday.

BELGRADE - Danube Competence Center (DCC) representatives presented on Friday the winning projects in a competition titled "Tourism and Biodiversity" aimed at making the best use of the biodiversity potential in the tourist offer of the Middle and Lower Danube River basin.

The level of the Bulgarian stretch of the Danube river is slightly decreasing, head of the Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the river Georgi Georgiev informed.

BELGRADE - The World Wildlife Fund in Serbia (WWF) released on Friday that a unified and more transparent approach needs to be taken on in flood management and added that the former flood areas need to be connected to rivers.

BELGRADE/OBRENOVAC - The water from the flooded Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac may subside in around five days and as of Sunday, the level of the Sava River may be expected to drop, the National Emergency Management Headquarters stated at the session on Friday.