Day of the Rivers campaign

The Elbe as the central lifeline in the National Park region is the focus of this year's RIVER DAY. Numerous hands-on activities on the banks of the Elbe and an extensive supporting program in the National Park Centre under the motto Everything in the River! - with the opening of the special exhibition of the same name - invite young and old to the Elbe.

The international RIVER DAY has been held annually on the fourth Sunday in September since 2005.
This year, the Saxon Switzerland National Park and Forest Administration is taking part in the 20th anniversary of the World River Day.

10-12 am Lectures, inputs and dialogues 
with exhibition opening Alles klar?! Water in the crisis

• Grit Ebert, Weiterdenken - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Sachsen e.V.
• Dr. Ernst Paul Dörfler, ecologist and author
• Prof. Dr.- Ing.Thomas Grischek, HTW Dresden, Department of Hydraulics
• Ronny Goldberg, SBS, NLPFV

2 and 4 p.m.: Film screening "Pure Elbe - 1,000 km through the Elbe" 
about extreme swimmer Prof. Dr. Andreas Fath, H2Org - for a plastic-free nature e.V.

Ongoing program 10 am - 5 pm:

• Microplastics research & action stand, Prof. Dr.-Thomas Grischek, Department of Hydrology and Mr. Kretschmar, Department of Polymer Chemistry, HTW Dresden
• Join in with the Regio Crowd, Romy Panier, LANU
• Bottle mail campaign Buchkinder Dresden
• "Alles klar!?" - Podcast Lounge

• RiverBalance - the water laboratory on the Elbe!
• Wild bird sanctuary Dresden - expert guided tour on the Elbe on "Birds on the Elbe"
• Guided tours with the Elbauenprojekt
• River walk with Dr. Ernst Paul Dörfler, RiverBalance - the water laboratory on the Elbe! Ernst Paul Dörfler, meeting 12:3 pm at Elbkai
• Environmental Center-Dresden
• River Experiment Volunteer Ranger
• NLPFV species protection info on beavers
• Seemannsgarn - Geschichten von den Elbschiffer
• #4fortheforest-Gallery of Horrors

Since 2005, the International Day of Rivers has been held annually on the fourth Sunday in September. The aim is to remind people worldwide of the value of rivers and raise public awareness. Water bodies are habitats for many plants and animals and therefore contribute to the preservation of biodiversity. We must therefore harmonize the protection and use of water bodies as far as possible.

https://www.bundesumweltministerium.de/veranstaltung/tag-der-fluesse