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ALFAwetlands project advance

April 27, 2023April 26, 20231 month ago Vlado Vancura 86 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

ALFAwetlands project is continuously advancing. In recent days, the ALFA team for wetlands made an additional important step to set-up co-creation

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International Day of Action for Rivers

March 14, 2023March 14, 20233 months ago Lisa Mahlknecht 299 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

On 14th of March, the international day of action for rivers is celebrated But what exactly is the international day of

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Fântâna Banului Lake has completely dried up

October 26, 2022November 2, 20227 months ago Victoria Steckhan 563 Views 0 Comments 9 min read

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

April 21, 2022November 29, 20221 year ago Victoria Steckhan 775 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

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

March 14, 2022November 29, 20221 year ago Victoria Steckhan 864 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

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

April 21, 2021April 20, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1619 Views 1 Comment 3 min read

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

January 27, 2021January 25, 20212 years ago Nick Huisman 1871 Views 2 Comments 6 min read

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

December 30, 2020December 18, 20202 years ago Nick Huisman 2144 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

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

November 13, 2020November 13, 20203 years ago Timothy Sung 2192 Views 1 Comment 7 min read

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

October 13, 2020October 13, 20203 years ago Hanna Ollos 2508 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

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

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EU commits to support free-flowing rivers

May 27, 2020September 30, 20203 years ago Vlado Vancura 3146 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

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

December 9, 2019March 30, 20213 years ago Ziva Alif 3311 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

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

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400 kg of garbage: How clean rivers help Slovensky raj

October 30, 2019April 16, 20204 years ago Jonas Sommer 4669 Views 1 Comment 9 min read

Another Citizens Engagement Activity, organized by our employee and ex-IVY volunteer Hanna Öllös and our current IVY volunteer Jonas Sommer,

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Chinook salmon die-off as a consequence of climate change

October 30, 2019October 24, 20194 years ago Ziva Alif 3454 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

The numbers of Chinook Salmon have dropped drastically in the recent years. In Columbia, US, 17 million salmon used to

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Lets Save the last WILD Rivers of Europe

August 2, 2019March 10, 20204 years ago Jonas Sommer 3718 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Wild, free-flowing rivers are a beauty of nature that can be rarely found in Europe nowadays. But the Balkans in

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

August 1, 2019August 1, 20194 years ago Hanna Ollos 3818 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

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

July 23, 2019July 21, 20194 years ago 3803 Views 1 Comment 2 min read

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

July 18, 2019June 4, 20204 years ago Ziva Alif 3887 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

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

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Ongoing river destruction in Romania

May 3, 2019April 14, 20204 years ago Nick Huisman 4385 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

The following message from the ‘Group of local Initiative – The Coalition for Biodiversity’ has come to our attention, which

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Last days to sign for #ProtectWater

March 7, 2019August 9, 20194 years ago Nick Huisman 3661 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

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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