🕵️‍♀️ #DanubeDetective Challenge 🔍 Think you know the Danube? Let’s test it! #ICPDR This June, we’re turning you into a Danube Detective! Each week, we’ll drop a fun fact, a mystery location, or a river riddle. Your mission? Guess, learn, and share! 🔔 Stay tuned.

For 21 years now, the International #DanubeDay 💧 takes place on 29 June. Each year, the 14 countries of the DRB jointly celebrate one of Europe's greatest river systems. Read on to find out how you can #DiscoverDanube in your country 👉 loom.ly/DzMnB2E #WednesdayWisdom

🌍 On #WorldEnvironmentDay, let’s pause & protect what matters: our rivers, our water, our future. 💧 Small actions = big impact: ✔ Choose tap water ✔ Cut plastic ✔ Save water ✔ Protect biodiversity 📸All photos: ©Chantal Lamarre; yellow-bellied toad ©Michael Franzen

🌊 JDS5 Diaries #3: Impatient for their official JDS5 #ZoomintoDanube t-shirts to arrive, Béla & Momir took matters into their own hands & crafted their own 'Wash Your Danube' tees. 👕 While their creativity is commendable, we hope they'll soon swap them for the official gear!

🚢💧 Danube Day premiered in Krems! 200 students explored water rescue, flood protection, fishery & more at 8 interactive stations 🇦🇹🎨🌊 Big thanks to all partners, volunteers & for making it happen! 💙#DanubeDay2025 #KeepersofTheDanube 📸© BMLUK/Susanne Brandstetter

The Danube flows through 4 capital cities – can you name them❓ 💡 Hint: One is famous for coffeehouses, one for paprika, one for bridges, and one for being very green. 🌳👇 Drop your guesses in the comments! 📸 Bonus: Been to any of them? Share a photo & tag #DanubeDetective

ICPDR's own Exec. Sec. reporting from #UNOC2025 🌊 At the Ministerial of the #BarcelonaConvention, 🇸🇮 Minister Jože Novak spotlighted Slovenia’s #SourceToSea vision under the 2025 AmanteDeLaMuzika!!! Presidency. Also on the panel: Maša Kociper, State Secretary in the PM’s Office.

Join us! 💧 EUSDR PA4 & AmanteDeLaMuzika!!! co-host an online workshop on sewage sludge management in the #DanubeRegion. 🗓️ 20 June | 10:00–13:00 CEST 👉 Register by 16 June: loom.ly/vU0naso #WaterQuality #EUSDR #ICPDR #CircularEconomy 📸 © Andrea Roskosch UBA

🎉 Join us on #DanubeDay for a day of fun and learning at Gyerek Sziget in Budapest! 🌿 From fish stocking to sandbag dam building & inspiring games, there’s something for everyone. 📍Óbudai Island (Hajógyári Island), Budapest 📅21.06., 10:00 – 18:00 👉 loom.ly/AlcJJjU

🦕 #DanubeDetective Quiz #2: Which Danube fish is older than the T-Rex, can grow up to 6 metres – and is now critically endangered? 1️⃣ European eel 2️⃣ Huchen (Danube salmon) 3️⃣ Sturgeon 💬 Drop your guess in the comments — the answer’s coming tomorrow! #ICPDR

The 23rd ICPDR Standing Working Group met in Postojna 🇸🇮 to review progress on drought action, the 2027 DRBMP & DFRMP Updates, and prepare for the 5th Joint Danube Survey – launching 1 July! 🚢💧 Thanks to 🇸🇮 for the warm welcome & Karst cave magic! 🌿 #ICPDR #JDS5 #Danube

📸 #DanubeDetective Quiz #3: Look at this photo. Can you guess where along the Danube it was taken❓ 🗺️ Drop your guess – bonus points if you’ve been there! 🏞️ Share your own Danube view with #DanubeDetective and tag us! #ICPDR

The River Danube connects 14 countries, many species and millions of people. On #DanubeDay we celebrate this unique habitat and work to protect a river flowing from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. Find out more about ICPDR - icpdr.org

🎉 Today is #DanubeDay – it’s time to celebrate! From river festivals and kids’ games to cleanups and concerts, thousands of people across the Danube Basin are coming together to honour our river. 💙 👉 Check out events near you: danubeday.org #OurDanubeOurFuture #ICPDR

🌅 Golden hour on the Danube. 💛 Thank you, Eva for sharing this stunning summer shot of a ship sailing into the sunset - a peaceful reminder of the beauty and life the Danube brings to our region. #ICPDR Got a special Danube moment to share? 👉Tag us – we’d love to see it!

🎉 #JDS5 is launched! 🌍 Today we kicked off the world’s largest surface water monitoring project in Vienna! 🔬 At the kick-off-event: Federal Minister Norbert Totschnig, BMLUK, ICPDR President Lidija Globevnik & ICPDR Executive Secretary Birgit Vogel. 👉 danubesurvey.org

🔬Yesterday #JDS5 had a kick-off event in Vienna! 🩵 The international research project involves 14 Danube countries, over 1,000 experts, and 108 monitoring stations along the Danube River. 🔗 More: loom.ly/oil80tw #ZoomIntoDanube #ICPDR @bmluk_gv_at

🌊 JDS5 Field Diary – Fish Group – Dyje River 🇨🇿 👋 Greetings from Pavel & the Fish Group team: “We teamed up with Mendel University Brno students to sample fish in the Dyje River. That handsome fish in the photo is a chub - Squalius cephalus." 👉Stay tuned for more JDS5 updates.

🌊🎨 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our enlightening panel discussion, "Surface & Substance: Exploring the Danube Through Science and Art"! Let's continue to explore and protect surface and substance together #DanubeRiver #ScienceAndArt #ICPDR UN Vienna

The habitats in the DRB host a unique variety of species. 💔Sadly, many habitats are degraded by man-made changes to the river profile leading many species close to extinction. #ICPDR investigates these changes in the framework of the DRBMP Updates👉 loom.ly/RnzjwhY