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WILDRivers

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Montenegro bring halt to new small hydropower plants

27/01/202125/01/20212 mins ago Nick Huisman 10 Views 0 Comments WILDRiver 2 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

30/12/202018/12/20204 weeks ago Nick Huisman 389 Views 0 Comments WILDRiver 2 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

13/11/202013/11/20203 months ago Timothy Sung 419 Views 1 Comment dams, Wildlife, WILDRiver 4 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

13/10/202013/10/20204 months ago Hanna Ollos 406 Views 0 Comments albania, Wilderness, WILDRiver 3 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

27/05/202030/09/20208 months ago Vlado Vancura 1305 Views 0 Comments bio, Europe, river, WILDRiver 2 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

09/12/201907/07/20201 year ago Ziva Alif 1447 Views 0 Comments WILDRiver 2 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

30/10/201916/04/20201 year ago Jonas Sommer 1956 Views 0 Comments Citizen Engagement Activity, conservation, river, Sustainable development 2 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

30/10/201924/10/20191 year ago Ziva Alif 1599 Views 0 Comments climate change 1 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

02/08/201910/03/20201 year ago Jonas Sommer 1881 Views 0 Comments Donate 1 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?

01/08/201901/08/20191 year ago Hanna Ollos 1980 Views 0 Comments albania, WILDRiver 3 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

23/07/201921/07/20192 years ago European Wilderness Society Volunteer 1898 Views 1 Comment river, WILDRiver 1 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

18/07/201904/06/20202 years ago Ziva Alif 1952 Views 0 Comments WILDRiver 1 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

03/05/201914/04/20202 years ago Nick Huisman 2293 Views 0 Comments Romania 4 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

07/03/201909/08/20192 years ago Nick Huisman 1844 Views 0 Comments Policy and Legislation, Public engagement, WILDRiver 3 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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How we lose our last wild rivers

02/01/201902/08/20192 years ago Vlado Vancura 2551 Views 0 Comments WILDRiver 1 min read

Most of the European rivers already lost their wild character, and the handful remaining wild rivers are quickly disappearing.

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WILDRivers in Ukraine

10/12/201820/04/20202 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 2563 Views 0 Comments European Wilderness Network, Ukraine, WILDRiver 0 min read

This are the Briefs for three WILDRivers in Ukraine – Mala Uholka, Shyrokyy Luh and Velyka Uholka WILDRiver. All are

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First European River Summit to save Europe’s last wild rivers

25/10/201813/04/20202 years ago Hanna Ollos 1848 Views 0 Comments Europe, WILDRiver 3 min read

According to the recent European State of Water report from the European Environment Agency, nearly two thirds of European rivers are in

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Belá WILDRiver under Threat

08/10/201826/04/20192 years ago Vlado Vancura 5245 Views 0 Comments Protected area management, Wilderness, WILDRiver 4 min read

It is impossible to overlook the intensity and extent of excavations with heavy machines in the Bela river, Slovakia. The

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Romania: Management of Protected Areas and Wild Rivers

13/08/201806/11/20192 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 3244 Views 1 Comment Policy and Legislation, Romania, WILDRiver 4 min read

Romania is a source of vast natural beauty. It has a variety of unique landscapes; notably some of the largest

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New EU Report reveals shocking state of European waters

26/07/201804/11/20193 years ago Max A.E. Rossberg 1756 Views 0 Comments Europe, Policy and Legislation, WILDRiver 2 min read

The European State of Water 2018 report, published this month, has concluded that only 40% of EU freshwater is of

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