Case Studies

The project’s objective was to improve the conservation status of aquatic bird species in Lower Prut Floodplain Natural Park (Galați County, RO) th

Removing barriers to fish migration, enhancing and restoring habitats, improving water-management infrastructure, and establishing a monitoring sys

The Exmoor Mires project is part of a wider Upstream Thinking programme initiated by the local water company South West Water (SWW) to use land man

Along the lower ~8 km of the Ezousa riverbed near Paphos, a MAR/SAT scheme uses the aquifer as a natural reservoir: tertiary-treated effluent from

Located in Pays de la Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Marais Poitevin is France’s second-largest wetland.

Originally implemented under the UNDP/GEF Tisza MSP, the measure rebuilt an existing floodgate at the confluence of a drying bypass channel and the

This scheme is part of the long-term SigmaPlan in Flanders, designed to increase flood storage in the Scheldt catchment while restoring natural hab

The Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, located along the Sava River, is one of the largest floodplains in Europe and a key retention area in the Croatian s

The project was implemented in 2009 by the Russenski Lom Nature Park Directorate, Club “Friends of Russenski Lom” and WWF, with the support of the

The floodplain restoration of the River Slampe was carried out in 2005 within the Kemeri National Park, Latvia.

The fluvial and ecosystem restoration of the Arga and Aragón River systems combines multiple measures to reconnect rivers with their floodplains an

The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority’s Fortuna Wetland Restoration Project reconnected the 2,115-ha agricultural polder “Fortuna” to the Da

Due to major developments over the past two centuries, the Eau Morte Valley (a tributary of Annecy Lake) has a hydrosedimentary dysfunction with in

Germasogeia (Amathos) River crosses Yermasoyia municipality near Limassol.

LIFE-Nature “Green Borders” (LIFE07 NAT/RO/000681, 2009–2013), coordinated by WWF with Romanian and Bulgarian partners, aimed to secure Pygmy Cormo

The fragments of floodplain forests (Fraxino - pannonicae -Ulmetum) along the River Körös were cut from the river by dykes during the river regulat

In the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, the ARBDD pursued ecological restoration by reconnecting the former Holbina–Dunavăț fish-farm basins to surr

The Holter-Hammrich project combined several natural water retention measures: floodplain restoration, meadow and pasture rehabilitation, and reduc

Upstream of ’s-Gravenvoeren (Voeren), the Horstergrub measure keeps muddy runoff in the valley with an earthen dyke/dams, and farmland was shifted

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The project aims to secure year-round Danube Commission fairway depths of 2.5 m between Călărași and Brăila, including during low flows.

In the Xiropotamos River Basin, near the town of Naoussa in Central Macedonia, Greece, a set of natural water retention measures was implemented to

Fourqueux (≈4,000 inh.) requalified its centre with new housing and created the “Jardin des Eaux” to manage stormwater from ~1.7 ha.