Case Studies

The Foki side arm is a historic Danube branch in the Inland Delta about 40 km from Bratislava.

The Sutlansko Lake area is a wetland with a high biological diversity.

The Timonchio Retention Pond was implemented in 2019 within the LIFE BEWARE project as an innovative response to increasing drought risk and climat

The initiative is aimed at the recovering and maintenance of a cultural and historical heritage with the promotion of new agricultural activities (

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

For this case study the core objective is how to enhance the sponge functioning in a modern, optimized drained landscape.

A series of experiments, created by the University of Helsinki’s Fifth Dimension – Green Roofs in Urban Areas research programme.

Within an Austrian LIFE Nature project, gravel banks have been established along the Danube in the Wachau, and dried site-arms have been reconnecte

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.

The Nagyszéksós-tó project aimed to safeguard the natural and recreational functions of the protected lake area by improving retention of 1.2 milli

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

Life for the Burgas Lakes (LIFE08-NAT/BG/000277) was an EU LIFE+ Nature project aiming to secure the long-term conservation of five Annex I bird sp

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

The short term project objectives were to create 250 ha of wetland by raising the water level of the embanked area with a regulating water outlet s

Restoration of two wetlands along the Danube River within Persina Nature Park, through engineering works including sluices, channels, dykes and acc

The action, led by the State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic with NGO partners and funded by LIFE and national sources, set out to restor

WETREST (LIFE05 NAT/SK/000112) in the Záhorie Lowland (western Slovakia) focused on wetland restoration and public awareness, funded by the LIFE pr

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