The project coordinated by the Ministry of Environment involves a mire restoration program in the Sumava National Park, Czech Republic, The aim was the raise of the water table to a natural (per-drainage) level, decrease the fluctuations, and retain sufficient water in the mires especially during the driest periods. To make it possible, the activities carried out were restoration of natural (or near-natural) mire hydrology, enhancement of...
The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority (Romania) established a strategy for ecological restoration by a reintegration of the fish farm basins with the surrounding wetlands by opening the ring dikes around the basins. The positive effects are both ecological (wetland restoration, natural habitat and breeding area for fish and aquatic birds) and socio-economical (development of traditional activities, fishing, livestock and reed...
The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority had the aim with the Fortuna Wetland Restoration Project of connecting agricultural polder Fortuna (2,115 ha), Romania, to the Danube regime, restoration of hydrological regime and hydrological functions.
This project improves the conservation status of the floodplain bird species that are protected in the Natura 2000 sites SPA Dunajské luhy (Slovakia) and SPA Szigetkoz (Hungary). It is funded by LIFE program.
The project LivingFountains, carried out in Slovenia, funding from the European Regional Development Fund and national funds, envisages the restoration and arrangement of 32 water wells and ponds as monuments of cultural heritage.
The innovative ecoremediation (ERM) system, which consist in a sedimentation pond for the deposition of coarse particles and reduction of current flow velocity, for treatment of the polluted tributary of Glinščica, Slovenia, was installed in 2006 by Limnos Itd.
The objective is the improvement of the navigation conditions on the Danube between Calarasi and Braila, in Romania, by ensuring the minimum depths of 2.5 m of the fairway recommended by the Danube Commission during the entire year, including the dry season.
Restoration in Czech Republic of a raised bog almost completely destroyed by industrial peat mining and establishment of wetland communities and peat-forming vegetation with possible return of relict peat-bog species. Sumava National Park and local authorities helped in the performance financed with national funds.
The main actions of the project, which formed part of a larger programme aimed at reducing the levels of pollution, was directed at restoring habitats important for
the survival of bird species. Such restoration was done by improving the lagoon's water circulation, through the removal of sediments, the creation of a
new marsh, flooding an area previously used for agriculture and the installation of equipment to control and...
Removing barriers to fish migration, enhancing and restoring habitats, improving the water management infrastructure, and putting in place a water monitoring system. Project funded by LIFE+ and carried out by Purgator Engineering Ltd. in responsibility of Ljubljana University.
The LIVEDRAVA project, funded by LIFE programe, involved the transformation of 61 ha of former wastewater basins into a semi-natural wetland within others. It was carried out in the Drava River, in the east of Slovenia.
The project will improve the hydrological conditions, remove the overgrowth, remove the invasive alien fish species in Gornji kal and Mura oxbow lakes, prevent the destruction of endangered habitats and the disturbance of endangered species by building footpaths in Zelenci and in Pohorje bogs, prepare guidelines for management of pilot areas and integrate them into sector plans, which will ensure a sustainable conservation of pilot areas.
The project was implemented in 2009 by the Russenski Lom Nature Park Directorate, Club „Friends of Russenski Lom” and WWF with the support of the Ministry of Culture and was funded by WWF and the German Federal Ecological Foundation DBU. By the application of the principle “more space for the river – more safety for people” aimed to open the dykes and reduce the floods on the roads and the possibility for the water to return into the river...
The Dimitrovgrad municipality performed Restoration, protection and sustainable development of protected area "Zlato pole", in Bulgaria, providing of additional water quantities for maintaining the hydrological regime of the protected place, construction of a hydraulic structure and a channel for supplying water from the river of Marinka in the protected area.
The "Life for the Burgas lakes" is supported by the financial intrument of the EU LIFE+ Nature and Biodiversity. Project aims to secure the long-term conservation of the five bird species included in Annex I of the Birds Directive and the sustainable management of their wetland habitats around the city of Burgas. With a duration of 4 years it was carried out in coordination with Bourgas Municipality, Chernomorsk sonitsi JSC, BBF and...
The Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), implemented the first constructed wetland in Vidrare, Pravetz, Bulgaria, for on-site treatment of domestic waste water of a children's home combined with capacity building for professionals.
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.
A linking canal with a lock, constructed in 1994, enabled the artificial respiration of Srebarna Lake in the Bulgarian border with Romania. Thanks to this canal, water from the Danube can now flow into the lake every year.
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.
LIFE Nature project "Transboundary conservation of the Phalacrocorax pygmaeus and Aythya nyroca in Romanian and Bulgarian key sites" in coordintion with WWF had the objective of ensuring living conditions for the two species by: reconstruction of nesting and feeding areas and implementing the best practices for fisheries management.