Putting Europe’s biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030, is the aim of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, and its most important key element is the recently adopted Nature Restoration Law (NRL). This law is the first of its kind, setting legally binding targets to restore degraded ecosystems in Member States of the European Union.
The NRL recognizes wetlands as ecosystems where conservation, restoration and sustainable use needs to be ensured. This aligns well with the goal of the ALFAwetlands project to maximise climate change mitigation & biodiversity of wetlands.
A great variety of wetland types, now to be restored as part of the NRL, can be found in the ALFAwetlands project regions. In Living Labs, platforms of interdisciplinary research, stakeholders from different backgrounds collaborate to conduct ecological and social science as well as modelling to produce scientific evidence on the impacts of managing hydrology, tree stands and soils.
For more information on the restoration of European wetlands, have a look at the ALFAwetlands Policy Brief along with the Country Fact Sheets including case examples from Austria, Germany and Belgium. The documents are available in English as well as in the local languages of the case countries.