The controversial “Urban Gardening Project” on the Pacherwiese in Pradl, a part of Innsbruck, Tyrol, will probably be terminated. Residents protested against the project. Massive protests of the residents culminated in a town meeting yesterday (Mon). The town government and the initiators thus withdrew the project. The planning commissioner of Innsbruck Gerhard Fritz (Green Party) […]
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Jane Goodalls Ibis Shot By Poachers
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A rare female Ibis that was named after its patron the British conservationist Jane Goodall has been shot by poachers in Italy. The Ibis has been extinct in Europe for 400 years but this year after a project spanning 10 years a team led by bird expert Dr Johannes Fritz had finally managed to reintroduce […]
The Red Bull Stratos project may have attracted a record number of viewers but it failed to deliver much of real scientific value, according to experts. Even scientists working in extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner’s hometown of Salzburg who carefully followed the project said that from a scientific point of view it delivered nothing. In Austria […]
Decomposers rave from the grave
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The world’s most famous dead composers like Beethoven and Schubert are to be brought back to life by QR headstones that will play their works to passers by. Officials at Vienna’s Central Cemetery in Austria are to place QR – or Quick Response – codes on the musicians’ tombstones so anyone with a smart-phone can […]
A farm that aims to offer mentally and physically disabled people the chance to work on the land has been given a 2,500 Euro boost from Casino Salzburg and the spa and wellness hotel Ebners Waldhof. The Mathiashof farm located at Ellmautal in Fuschl am See gives employment to 20 people with either mental or […]
A panorama road built by the Third Reich during World War II should be restored with 30 million Euros of public cash, historic monument officials in Austria are demanding. The 10 mile Hohenstrasse – or Vienna High Road – was hand built from blocks of granite over six years as a work creation programme for […]
From Autumn 2013 a new cable car will be in use in Wagrain in the Pongau which will connect the town’s two ski resorts. Two weeks ago the construction work for the 14 million Euro project began after four years of planning. The new ski lift will transport 130 people at a time two kilometres […]
Das Boot shows the way to the hotel
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An Austrian hotel has fixed this yacht by artist Erwin Wurm to the roof of ithe building with the front melting so that it points down to the front entrance. Hotel Daniel management in the Austrian capital Vienna refused to say how much they spent for the project which had to get special permission to […]
The first wife of Mick Jagger who is now a European goodwill ambassador has come to Vienna to highlight the fact that the Austrian firm Andritz is involved in a controversial project to build a huge dam in the Amazon rainforest. Bianca met husband to be Mick Jagger at a party after a Rolling Stones […]
Austrian education officials have spent more than £6 million rebuilding a school – after an aerial shot showed that it looked like a swastika from the air. The resemblance to the Nazi symbol was not noticed after the school was built in 1979 and it was only when Google Earth snaps were studied that the […]