Tag: restoration
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Exploring River Restoration and Wetland Resilience at the Lower Inn
How can river restoration, wetland protection and biodiversity monitoring work together to create healthier landscapes? During the LIFE DAYS in Braunau, ALFAwetlands partner, European Wilderness Society, joined a field visit to the Lower Inn floodplains and gained valuable insights into one of the region’s important river restoration initiatives. Field visits like this help translate restoration…
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ALFAwetlands Field Visit: Restoring Space for Water
In the beginning of March ALFAwetlands team of the European Wilderness Society visited the Russbach region near Deutsch-Wagram in the Marchfeld plain (Lower Austria), together with representatives from LIFE AMooRe and local stakeholders and decisions makers. The field visit provided an on-the-ground view of how historical drainage and river engineering reshaped the landscape and how…
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Wetlands in Action Webinars
The Horizon Europe Sister Projects ALFAwetlands, RESTORE4Cs, REWET, and WET HORIZONS are proud to hold “Wetlands in Action”, a dynamic series of expert-led webinars showcasing the latest in wetland science, innovation, and cross-project collaboration. Our sessions: We are planning more sessions to showcase project Policy instruments and key results. Stay tuned for more updates. Watch sessions´ recording Missed the live session?…
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ALFAwetlands newest results: Recommendations for wetland restoration, Part 2
One of the ALFAwetlands current important results is the Report on the “Recommendations for wetland restoration” and is already available! The Report among other includes: Please also read: Part 1 ALFAwetlands results: Recommendations for wetland restoration. The Figure shows countries in which restoration projects have been implemented. The number of projects included in the database…
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A European-scale campaign during the summer of 2024 across the 5 living labs
The field campaign Within ALFAwetlands, we measure and evaluate wetland restorations, impacts and possible strategies, trying to answer multiple specific research questions. The variety of wetland living labs across Europe allows partner-wise harmonized methodologies for continuous monitoring. Furthermore, individual experiments may be conducted. In this context, the CNRS team from Toulouse, in collaboration with the…
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LL Estonia – how we accompany the restoration of former peat extraction areas
ALFAwetlands Living Lab in Estonia, run by University of Tartu, consists of four sites, namely: Vända, Laiuse, Ess-soo and Kuresoo. Below you will find more details about the history and current restoration activities at the Laiuse and Ess-soo. The history of peat extraction mining Wetlands, particularly peatlands, demand our special attention. ALFAwetlands addresses the restoration…
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The complexity of data collection – the ALFAwetlands approach
ALFAwetlands is a complex, multi-annual EU Horizon project with project partners and their respective Living Labs from across Europe. Further, there are nine different wetland types from restored peat extraction areas over wetland forests to coastal wetlands included in our project. Consequently, any kind of data collection should be synchronized, hereby following the principle of…
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Field visit and Living Lab Open Day
After three fruitful Midterm Conference days from which two were filled with presentations, workshops, discussions and meetings, it was time to go outdoors again! Please also read: ALFAwetlands conference day 1: Excursion to the Hungarian side of the lake Excursion to National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel Day 4 of the ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference began at the…
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ALFAwetlands Press Release 2024
ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference took place during 21-24 of May 2024 at the Austrian-Hungarian Living Laboratory site. The main location of the Conference was the Neusiedl See – Seewinkel National Park Visitor Center in Illmitz, Austria. The Conference aimed to review the ALFAwetlands implementation progress, present and exchange current results as well as…
