Case Studies

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

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

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

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