Case Studies

The study site is the sub catchment of Tetves, is considered a priority area in terms of water protection. The size of the study site is 68 km2.

The Wimbe basin is about 112 km2 in size and is classified as a continental bioregion. The basin consists of the water bodies LE8-10.

Sävjaån catchment is a lowland mixed land use catchment characteristic of central Sweden.

Órbigo River (Duero Basin, NW Spain) ecological status improvement.

Oroklini Lake lies near Larnaca within Oroklini village. The wetland was modified in the mid-1940s to promote desiccation for health reasons.

Ecological flooding has been implemented in a polder area near Altenheim, Germany, as part of the Integrated Rhine Programme (IRP).

Installed in 2006 by Limnos Ltd., the innovative ecoremediation (ERM) system on a polluted tributary of the Glinščica combines a sedimentation pond

DANUBE FORESTS, coordinated by BROZ and funded by the LIFE programme, preserves the remaining floodplain forests of the Slovak Danube inland delta

The Polish governmental agreement on water retention in small‑scale infrastructures was signed in 1995 to improve the structure of the water balanc

Reconstruction of the Lepiku channel that is a part of the drainage system, which starts from the new residential area next to the Tallinn Botanic

Reconstruction of dams and sluice gates, blocking of drainage ditches and creation of a hydrological network to route water from the Little Carpath

Integrated rainwater retention was applied to recover degraded landscapes and local climate in north-eastern Slovakia, using small check dams, rete

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.

Headwater wet meadow (Saint-Évarzec, Finistère) where two drainage ditches short-circuited a hillside spring and routed nitrate-rich flows directly

Located in eastern Geneva canton, the Seymaz renaturation replaces concrete channelization with a softer, wider river corridor and recreates marshl

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

Upstream of L’Isle-Jourdain (Gers), the Save’s active floodplain hosts a complex of wet meadows.

The WETLIFE project (2009–2012) in Amalva and Žuvintas mires sought to reverse negative changes by restoring hydrology (converting sluices to spill

The Salt of Life project (LIFE11 NAT/BG/000362) restored the lagoon’s water-management infrastructure at Atanasovsko Lake by repairing dykes and ba

The measure was implemented in 2013 in Matsalu National Park (Natura 2000, Ramsar), at a former coastal meadow beside the large Salmi complex.

This site was one of nine included in the LIFE05 project to restore priority woodland habitats in Ireland.

The EC LIFE programme’s co-financed project aims to restore the hydrological system in the Middle Basin of the Biebrza Valley to support the conser

South of Bratislava, the Morava River and its tributaries were modified at three sites to restore wetland biotic complexes and enable movements bet