Along the border between Austria and Slovakia runs a river that has long resisted all attempts to tame it: the Morava. On the last sixty kilometres of its journey to the Danube, it remains an untamed water landscape to this day, shaped by the eternal alternation between drought and flooding. Between alluvial forest, flooded meadows and the river itself lies an ever changing wildlife wonderland. A complete contrast to this almost permanently wet wildland is the adjacent steppe with its dry, sandy soils and heat-resistant fauna and flora.