Case Studies

The Léguer River catchment is one of the most hedged areas in Brittany, but has suffered a decline in its hedgerow mesh as a result of agricultural

Ambrosia Forest in Villars-sur-Var is a Terre de Liens farm converting 3.7 ha of abandoned vineyard terraces into a regenerative fruit landscape.

The project to rehabilitate heaths and mires on the Hautes-Fagnes Plateau (Belgium) is a long-running peatland restoration programme.

At Locquirec’s Moulin de la Rive, the old aqueduct and undersized culvert on the Lapic blocked fish migration and sediment transport and created a

Executive Forest Agency (EFA) is the coordinating beneficiary and, with WWF, implements a project to protect and restore 11 riparian and wetland ha

More than half of the territory of the regional natural park of the Millevaches in Limousin (PNR) is covered with forest, some of which is the subj

The case study lies in the draining basin of the Venice Lagoon, an intensively farmed area crossed by a dense network of drainage channels.

Restoration of the length of the Borova stream, increased by 6.3 km a shallow meandering stream bed, where sections of speedily running water alter

Restoration and conservation of riparian forests along the Maritsa in the protected area “Reka Maritsa” (Natura 2000 BG0000578).

Along the Ill between Colmar and Strasbourg, a basin-wide programme combines classical flood protection (dykes, optimisation/automation of barrages

This case study focuses on the restoration of the Aurino stream as part of a 20-year management plan (1999–2020), during which several interventio

Measures to attenuate runoff were installed in the small Belford catchment, in northeast England, in order to reduce the risk of flooding to the vi

The Slowing the Flow at Pickering project (2009–2015) set out to reduce flood peaks in Pickering, North Yorkshire, by harnessing natural processes

The measures implemented at two river within the city of Hamburg (Germany) included the restoration of rivers and ponds (N1), the revitalization of

The Tullstorpsån Rural Development Project is a long-term, landowner-driven initiative implementing multiple Natural Water Retention Measures to im

The project focuses on post-fire water retention management in the broader area of Ancient Olympia, Elia, Peloponnese, Greece.

Water retention spaces, reforestation and grazing management in southern Portugal.

Kamanos Strict Nature Reserve is the largest raised bog (2,434 ha) in the northern Lithuania region (a farming region) with ridge–pool complexes, n

This project improves the conservation status of floodplain bird species protected in the Natura 2000 sites SPA Dunajské luhy (Slovakia) and SPA Sz

The LIFE WETMAN project (2011–2015) restored six Slovenian wetlands (Pohorje bogs, Zelenci, Mura–Petišovci oxbows, Gornji kal, Planik and Vrhe).