A number of nature activists gathered once again near the historic sites of the rescue demonstrations and fights for the Danube riverine forests, in the little village of Stopfenreuth.

Yes, the old spirit was still there, but unfortunately as well as the threat for this incredible wilderness area - now by obviously unavoidable plans for some major highway crossings of the area, and by quite unsensitively designing the Danube's shape to suit for large ship traffic.

This enterprise started in May 2003 and usually is held once a month.

A sample of the 25.11.2004 workshop can be seen and heared on this website.

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Among them were David Attenborough, Richard Leakey and once again Jane Goodall.

Workshops, lectures, presentations, an industrial show and a number of social gatherings rounded up this 6-day-event.

CAM 3001 could present a number of work samples and projects.

an impressive number of outdoor friends gathered together for the world premiere in some Lower Austria county-side inn, - as well as several film enthusiasts and as particular fans of CAM 3001.

The generally positive response showed the well appreciated estimation for this dedicated and ambitious piece of work.

Initiator Maximilian Liebich and his team created an unique atmosphere, covering a wide musical range with the four performing formations 3minor, Melodrom, Audiophil and Psycho P.

The material for a - hopefully soon to be finished - CAM 3001 film documentation was shot via a three-camera enterprise, designed to be released as tape or disk.

Fritz Novotny, "spiritus rector" of the well-known Reform Art Unit, gathered an impressive number of improvising musician friends for this first time event.

CAM 3001 added a congenial video documentation to this unification of the arts, liberating the camera to join the dancers with their movements in close-up visuals, and permanently changing the camera from the fixed tripod to the gliding hand-held position.

Shooting the video documentation "Super-K" of this extraordinary event in the incredible landscape of the Karpatian mountains

- this meant both work and outdoor living together in a thrilling combination of adventure and of the deep impression of a landscape and people in a kind we have lost here in the "West" already for decades.

Expedition To The Unknown ... - a number of adventure specialists were once again on the move to visit a country which is relatively undiscovered for the international community of travellers.

We found Ukraine rich in culture and tradition; - certainly poor in living on one side, but widely unspoiled on the other one.

The pure attraction of our presence led in many cases to a warm and open wellcome - and to a high interest for our well-equipped 4WD expedition vehicles.

Despite of the limited time for this first encounter CAM 3001 could use this good opportunity to cover the many aspects of the Transkarpathian area for a new video documentary.

Laura certainly did not know who was giving her a hug: Jane Goodall obviously spreads her sympathy not only to her beloved chimpanzees, but to so many other creatures on earth among them dogs are said to be some of her favorites.

Jane Goodall has visited Vienna - and all her fans gathered to welcome her.

Arriving late for a reception at the British embassy due to heavy fog over London at her first evening, she opened 11.12.2003 a new Austria branch of her worldwide operating Jane Goodall Institute.

The visit to a retirement place for the laboratory chimpanzees of a drug company meant a big relief to Jane Goodall - she discovered the excellent living conditions at present as a true contradistinction to the bare imprisonment cages at the time of their experimental misuse.

In connection with a four day event to preserve the museum in it's present shape and spirit, an impressive number of artists gathered in a powerful artistic workshow demonstration, among them the R.A.U. derived "Improvising Seven" with one of their extraordinary concerts.

CAM 3001 made a full documenmtation of R.A.U.'s "Homage to a Museum" via a 2 camera single-operated enterprise.

A number of rarely visited areas unveiled hidden secrets off the beaten tracks. Special adaptations were applied to use the various means of transport even as the substitute for a film dolly.

Excellent maps and the use of a GPS allowed the access to all these side steps, despite the rather tight schedule and an inferiour car.

Schaller received the Lifetime Award of the festival, Goodall joined several panels in connection with honouring Africa's Gabon for it's extraordinary activities in creating preservation areas for the threatened Congo Basin, and gave a touching outline of her current wordwide chimpanzee activities. The talk with Turner focused on his approach to nature - showing a true conservationist, far beyond of being just the founder of CNN.

The managing director of the local Rauriser Hochalmbahnen AG cableway systems, Erich Hutter, presented on this occation an award of recognition to the author, mentioning especially the impressive number of years of good cooperation in connection with his film and photo documentation work in the bearded vulture conservation scheme.

LINK: to the Heimalm website (in German language, many pictures)

The Big Flood of several rivers of Central Europe brought severe suffering to millions of people, who lost their houses, cars and often their entire property. These tragic events kept the news media busy for weeks. Subsequently the innudation had shifted downstream the major draining rivers like the Danube.

CAM 3001 focused on the other important aspect of this spate, the influence on nature. Floodplain forests are dependent on regular flooding to maintain their character as a riverine forest, so such an event has to be seen here as a part of the natural cycle.

Similar to 1991 when there was the last big deluge, several canoe expeditions and cross-water hikes were CAM 3001's means to document this 'event of a century'. Find here more added to the Danube subpage.

Alpine ski champion Janica Kostelic, all-Croatia's darling (due to her four [3x gold] medals at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City / Utah / USA), payed an unexpected visit to the participants of "Humanijada 2002".

Her dense training schedule unfortunately did not allow her to present the cups to the various winners in this international students' sports tournament (2002 again organized by a number of Croatian students, taking place this time in Umag / Istria).

The mixed volleyball team of the Vienna Veterinary University students (inclusive one qualified vet...) participated once more in the men's competition.