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WWF Bulgaria has implemented a project to release more than 50,000 baby sturgeons in the Danube to help bring the species back from the brink of extinction, AFP reported on Tuesday.
Only four of these species are left in the Danube out of the six varieties of sturgeons that once lived in the river flowing into the Black Sea, the newswire quoted WWF Bulgaria country manager Vesselina Kavrakova as saying.
Three of these species are listed as critically endangered according to international classifications, while the fourth one - the Sterlet - “are listed as vulnerable but their condition is estimated as very bad,” Kavrakova said.
The lower part of the Danube in Bulgaria and neighbouring Romania is home to the EU's last still viable populations of sturgeons. WWF Bulgaria experts hope the released baby sturgeons will survive long enough to reach maturity and throw their own caviar into the river within another three or four years.
The release of the little Sterlet sturgeons bred in artificial ponds by WWF Bulgaria is part of a BGN 1.35M project to improve the conservation of sturgeons in the Danube co-financed through EU funds under Operational Programme Environment 2007-2013.
Despite outlasting the dinosaurs, sturgeons are vulnerable to overfishing, poaching, contamination of water and interference in their natural habitat globally. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, they are "more critically endangered than any other group of species," WWF Bulgaria said on its website.
On Sunday, March 29th, 2026, at 03:00 a.m., Bulgaria will switch to summer time. Clocks will be moved forward by one hour, meaning we will lose an hour of sleep.
Rising tensions in the Middle East are already putting pressure on global energy markets, and economists warn that Bulgaria is likely to feel the impact through higher inflation in the second quarter of 2026
Bulgaria is set to see significant changes in driving courses, which will include mandatory night driving, updated technical standards, and stricter oversight
Between 2022 and 2026, Bulgaria provided humanitarian and technical energy assistance to Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Energy.
Acting Foreign Minister Nadezhda Neynsky announced that for the upcoming parliamentary elections on April 19, Bulgaria will not open polling stations in countries affected by the conflict in the Middle East.
Bulgaria’s state fuel reserves are sufficient to cover normal consumption for the next 90 days, but domestic fuel prices continue to climb amid the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East
On Wednesday, March 11, Bulgaria can expect mostly sunny weather with daytime temperatures reaching up to 18 degrees, according to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH). Mornings will be colder, and in parts of Eastern Bulgaria, fog a
Bulgaria is set for a mostly sunny day on Tuesday, March 10, though early hours will be marked by cold temperatures and pockets of fog in many areas, according to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH)
During the night, cloud cover will shift toward western regions but will gradually clear, leaving most of the country with mostly clear skies by morning.
On Friday, March 6, Bulgaria will experience varying weather across its regions. In the eastern part of the country, skies will remain mostly cloudy, with light rain possible in some areas during the afternoon
Thursday will see a marked change in Bulgaria’s weather, with mostly cloudy skies and widespread precipitation across many areas in Western and Central regions, according to the NIMH forecast for March 5.
The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) has released the weather forecast for March, indicating that temperatures across Bulgaria will vary between minus 7 and minus 2 degrees at their lowest
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