Case Studies

The Aklais Mire is a degraded raised bog located in western Latvia, within the Aklais Mire Nature Reserve, part of the Natura 2000 network.

Hermance is a French–Swiss transboundary river.

Since 1984, the Ille-et-Vilaine Hunting Federation has been restoring a 550-ha peat marsh heavily drained and cropped in the 20th century.

The Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (AOPK ČR) restored the Černý potok (Black Brook) in the Černá louka Nature Reserve (Ore Mounta

The Ernz Blanche (Luxembourg) river restoration sought to undo channelisation that had uniformised the river and increased downstream flooding.

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 Odense is a river in southern Denmark. It was channelized and deepened in the late 1940s to improve agriculture.

Soumarský Most (Šumava NP) is a raised bog once almost destroyed by industrial peat mining.

WWF’s Danube-Carpathian Programme, together with residents of Mindya (Veliko Tarnovo), reconnected the Veselina River to a former meander near the

Dimitrovgrad Municipality restored, protected and promoted the sustainable development of the “Zlato pole” protected area by securing additional wa

The LivingFountains project, financed by the European Regional Development Fund and national funds, set out to restore and arrange 32 village water

This project combined several natural water retention measures: restoration of meadows and pastures, reduced tillage, reduced stocking density, and

The main objective of the project is to conserve the biodiversity, the natural habitats, the wild species of flora and fauna and to assure an effic

A linking canal with a lock, constructed in 1994, restored the hydrological connection between Srebarna Lake and the Danube, enabling an annual inf

The restoration of the Kuresoo bog aimed to re-establish the natural water regime and typical bog vegetation in a severely drained area within Soom

Between 1990 and 2005, the River Quaggy programme in southeast London combined river restoration and flood management to address growing urban floo

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

Located in Chêne-Bougeries (Geneva canton), this 1995 retention pond demonstrates NWRM in a dense urban plot.

The Scarpe in Arras (long canalised) was renatured (2009–2012) to balance navigation, recreation and ecology.

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

At three different sections of the Austrian Drau the river bed was enlarged and restoration works have taken place.

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

The maintained reserve “Dolna Topchiya” (Natura 2000 BG0000195 “Reka Tundzha 2”) was restored by RIEW–Stara Zagora through a diversion weir and a ~

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