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As a result of the global campaign launched last week calling on the government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to permanently protect the country’s last wild rivers from small hydropower projects and the local protests that followed, the Federation Prime Minister Mr. Fadil Novalic issued a public statement in support of the protests: "I personally support environmental NGOs. As a great lover of nature, I will always support conservation projects. I think clean rivers are more important to us than electricity. We are probably the only country in the region that is energy independent, we get enough energy from other sources. We must keep our rivers clean and pass them on to future generations."

Bosnia and Herzegovina rivers are facing imminent destruction due to 463 small hydropower projects currently under construction or being planned. The federation needs to take swift action now—like we’ve done in the United States with the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act—to permanently protect the most biodiverse rivers remaining in Europe, a lifeline for local communities and many endangered species that the world otherwise risks losing. #BiHRunsFree #jaBiHdatecem #SaveTheBlueHeartofEurope

Photo by Sead Sasivarevic

Let Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wild rivers run free! More than 430 small hydropower plants in the country have either recently been built, are under construction, or are planned—destroying some of Europe’s most intact and biodiverse rivers and the forests around them, and diverting and polluting water. By defending these rivers and the surrounding forests, local communities are defending their families and their homes, in addition to protecting critical nature-based solutions to the climate crisis to the benefit of all life on Earth.

Unless the government turns into law a recent resolution to ban small hydropower projects on the country’s rivers, thousands of kilometers of Bosnia and Herzegovina's wild rivers—and the people and wildlife that depend on them—will again be at grave risk. The deadline to implement the resolution, which was in direct response to tremendous local grassroots resistance, is Sept. 23. An international coalition of conservation organizations, including Global Wildlife Conservation, has joined the call by the community activists to fully and permanently ban the devastating construction of small hydropower plants and for the government instead to invest in ecotourism, and solar and wind power.

#BiHRunsFree #jaBiHdatecem #SaveTheBlueHeartofEurope #ExtinctionEndsHere