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Duna Kör
Duna Kör () is a Hungarian environmental organization founded in 1984 as a protest body to prevent the construction of the Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros Dams. Opponents of the dam argued that it would create an environmental disaster that would displace thousands of Hungarians from villages and towns where their families had lived for centuries. Opponents of the regime soon joined this burgeoning environmental protest and by the fall of 1988 the Danube Circle had about 10,000 core followers who actively demonstrated against the dam in the streets of Budapest. These actions mirrored protests earlier in the summer of 1988, in which more than 30,000 people marched in Budapest to express their anger over the Romanian government’s plan to bulldoze entire Hungarian villages in Transylvania. Hungary had not seen public protests on this scale since 1956. It is significant in that it is seen to be the start of the erosion of Communist power in Hungary, which ended in May 1990 with the first fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros Dams
Gabčíkovo (, ) is a town and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District, in the Trnava Region of southwestern Slovakia. It has 5,232 inhabitants of whom approximately 80% are Hungarians. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, the city was named after Jozef Gabčík, an important figure in the Czechoslovakian resistance to Nazi occupation. Name The Hungarian name of the town was first recorded in 1102 as ''Beys'' and preserves the name of its erstwhile Pecheneg inhabitants, ''pecheneg'' being ''besenyő'' in Hungarian. The town appears in several documents between 1262 and 1274 as a borderguard Pecheneg settlement. The current Slovak name of the town was given by the authorities in 1948 after Jozef Gabčík, a Slovak soldier involved in Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Geography Gabčíkovo is situated along the Danube river on the border with Hungary, in the southern part of Great Rye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Vargha
János Vargha (born 1949) is a Hungarian biologist, environmentalist and photographer. He organized opposition in particular against the projected Nagymaros dam in the Danube river system. He founded Duna Kör, an environmental movement. Education and career Vargha graduated from the József Attila University, Szeged in 1977 where he took his master's degree in biology. In 1998 he became the chief environmental advisor of the Hungarian government but he left his job in 2000. Social and environmental activist Around 1981 ,Vargha was active to save the Danube River and the habitat of over 200 animal and plant species due to the plans of building a dam which would have submerged 150,000 acres of forests. This would have led to transformation the fauna and flora of the Danube river into an industrial site. In order to prevent authorities from building the dam, he founded an association Duna Kör (Danube Circle) in 1984 which was against the project. Vargha's publications on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexküll, and is presented annually in early December. An international jury, invited by the five regular Right Livelihood Award board members, decides the awards in such fields as environmental protection, human rights, sustainable development, health, education, and peace. The prize money is shared among the winners, usually numbering four, and is €200,000. Very often one of the four laureates receives an honorary award, which means that the other three share the prize money. Although it has been promoted as an "Alternative Nobel Prize", it does not have any organizational ties at all to the awarding institutions of the Nobel Prize or the Nobel Foundation. The Right Livelihood Award committee arranged for awards to be made in the Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Organisations Based In Hungary
Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms Other physical and cultural environments *Ecology, the branch of ethology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings *Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties. *Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the settings for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places *Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact *Market environment, business term Arts, entertainment and publishing * ''Environment'' (magazine), a peer-reviewed, popular e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
