The Cherio River basin is located in the eastern part of Bergamo province, Lombardy region. It extends from the pre-alpine reliefs to the irrigated plain area, down to the confluence of Cherio River into Oglio River. The catchment area is about 153 km2, broken down mainly into forest (42%) and agricultural (39%) land. The territory is vulnerable to overflows and flooding events, which requires constant reclamation activities. Moreover, the...
Executive Forest Agency (EFA) is the coordinating beneficiary and together with the international conservation organization WWF work on a project that protects and restores the 11 habitat types rivers and wetlands in the forests on an area of 21 thousand ha in 10 Bulgarian nature parks - Bulgarka , Vitosha, Vratsa Balkan, Golden Sands Park, Rila Monastery, Ruse Lom, Blue Rocks, Strandja, Shumen Plateau.
The Alzette river (Luxembourg) restoration project aimed at erasing the effect of the river chanelling, which caused the river uniformisation and an ecological impoverishment. The project consisted in a remeandering, increase of the base level of the river, widening of the riverbed, reconnection of the river to existing ponds and creation of a new pond.
The measure was implemented in Matsalu National Park, Estonia, a former coastal meadow site (Natura 2000 and Ramsar site) next to a big Salmi coastal meadow with many priority species. The old non-functioning small ditches were closed and scraped to restore the wetland hydrology and breeding and feeding grounds for waders and amphibians. Before the restoration works the area was used mainly for bovine grazing and the restoration did not...
The project involves the removal of drainage from a wet grassland at the head of a small Breton coastal river watershed in an area subject to nitrogen pressure. Located at the bottom of an hydromorphic valley, the Coat Carriou meadow has been drained by two ditches to allow the plot to be mowed. Collecting runoff from the hillside, the two ditches caused a short circuit in the meadow, leading the nitrate-laden runoff directly to the river...
The restoration of riparian floodplain habitats in reserve "Dolna Topchia", Bulgaria, was performed by Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water – Stara Zagora. It was designed and constructed hydraulic structures on river Tundzha (a weir and one channel of 900 m) for recovery of riparian wetland biotypes maintained in the reserve and run off on his sleeve Malka Tundzha.