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Celebrating World Rivers Day 2025!

Every year, World Rivers Day reminds us of the importance of rivers for biodiversity, climate resilience, and human well-being. Rivers shape landscapes,

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Fântâna Banului Lake has completely dried up

Written by Calin Dejeu One of the worst ecocides in Romania is the destruction of the Danube Floodplain. Hundreds of

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$200 million investment in US rivers – World Fish Migration Day

Today on World Fish Migration Day, let’s draw attention to some good news from across the pond. Last week, the

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International Day of Action for Rivers – Antlers detect lead pollution

Today is the International Day of Action for Rivers! In Europe, many rivers suffer from pollution, whether through chemicals, nutrients

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A stand for free-flowing rivers on World Fish Migration Day

You might not have heard of it before, but today is World Fish Migration Day. Many fish species need to

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Montenegro bring halt to new small hydropower plants

Good news has reached us from Montenegro! Its government has announced its recent decision to stop licensing construction of new

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Over 1 million barriers block European rivers

The majority of rivers in Europe have been dammed, forded or bridged over the past centuries. Yet, an overview of

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Loss of an ancient fish: here for an epoch, gone in a day

A 65 million year old fish species, almost eliminated in the space of 60 years. That is sadly the story

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Vjosa National Park: Victory over hydropower on the doorstep

The last European wild rivers are under increasing threat, due to inadequate or complete lack of protection, traditional use or

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Migratory fish populations declined by 76% since 1970

In the last century, humans have altered the Earth’s surface in many ways. Most people are aware of climate change,

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Wilderness in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030

We already covered the main points of the new ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030‘ and its commitment to free-flowing rivers. But

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EU commits to support free-flowing rivers

The recently released the new EU-wide Biodiversity Strategy revealed the ambition to put Europe’s biodiversity on the path to recovery

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European rivers threatened by more and more dams

A new report on the effects of damming on European rivers has highlighted how rivers are saturated with dams. Currently,

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Hydropower tsunami – shouldn’t there be something that we don’t destroy?

The Balkan Peninsula is home to the last wild rivers in Europe. At present, around 3,000 hydropower plants are planned

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AMBER – how they are changing rivers across Europe

The European Wilderness Society recently attended the week long Balkan River Defence event for a day. While listening to presentations

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Meeting Balkan River Defence

Last Thursday, the European Wilderness Society team participated at the Students for Rivers Camp, organised by the Balkan River Defence

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A victory for Mura river

Recently, the Slovene government has stopped the preparation of the spatial plan for a hydroelectric powerplant on Mura river. As

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Last days to sign for #ProtectWater

Have you signed already? So far, over 345,000 citizens took part in the EU wide campaign #ProtectWater! This campaign is

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Dyje WildRiver and Podyji Wilderness Brief

Today we are releasing two new and up to date Wilderness Briefs about Wilderness in the Czech Republic – Podyji

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Ecosystem services of alpine rivers

Only 14% of alpine rivers are in a good ecological state, according to a brochure of the project “Strategic Planning

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