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Partial dam removal of the Poutès dam : Last local public consultation open

for more information visite the official site of the consultation process (ends 28 december 2018) , in french only

Consultation “dossier d’enquête publique”, in french only
> Read our french press release 

> more information on the project (in english)

WFD Fitness Check ! Be ready !

The Water Framework Directive (WFD), which has made great works in protecting and restoring our rivers, lakes and groundwaters, is under fitness check by the European Commission.

To make our voices heard, and protect our rivers, get ready to participate at the public consultation which will be launched in september or october 2018.

We must show that people care about our rivers and don’t want this ambitious and important policy for our living well to be weakened. To protect our lakes and rivers we need to protect the WFD

Sign up (on our Big Jump website) to get informed of the launch of the public consultation. www.bigjump.org/en/participant-form/

Read more www.ern.org/en/living-rivers-europe

We need your help to upgrade our statement to our governments : we need to preserve the ambition of the WFD.

The 21 of April it’s the “World Fish Migration Day” : participate

The World Fish Migration Day (WFMD) is a one day global celebration to create awareness on the importance of open rivers and migratory fish and it is coordinated by the World Fish Migration Foundation. On World Fish Migration Day organizations from around the world organize their own event around the common theme of: CONNECTING FISH, RIVERS AND PEOPLE. Many of these events are open to the public. By working together we create a greater driving force to raise awareness, share ideas and secure commitments.

Presse release :  french events on Loire basin – in french

All events on : https://www.worldfishmigrationday.com/events

 

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The RiverNews France are online (in french only)

read the RiverNews France Mai 2017  (in french only)

 

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new leaflet : NO GO for micro hydro in french wild and scenic rivers

Only 1% of French river, mostly in national park, have a good statute of preservation, with a specific and endemic biodiversity. We need to save them from hydropower projects. This project causes too much damage on the rivers and do not participate to energetic transition.  ERN France – Wild Rivers publishes a brochure with examples of 3 endangered beautyfull rivers.

Download the leaflet (in french only)

Salmon in the Alps

It’s not just possible, but was once reality. And could be again ! Read this great article in the Atlantic Salmon Journal, written by  Nathan Wilbur.
Download the 3 page article in pdf  :  2017 04 – Atlantic Salmon – Rhine
Subscribe the Atlantic Salmon Journal : www.asf.ca

more information on the Salmon Comeback Campaign 

 

 

Rhine River : It was just a dream…

It was just a dream and a April Fool’s day trick. EDF is NOT demolishing the Vogelgrün Dam. The salmon must wait and the Salmoncomeback-Coalition has to strenghten its campaign for a free Rhine river . . .

more information : www.salmoncomeback.org

Photo Vogelgrün

Rhine River : EDF decides to demolish the Vogelgrün Hydro Power Station

Due to technical issues in making the Vogelgrün dam passable for fish and the current financial difficulties faced by EDF, a surprising decision has been made to demolish the power station. Usually well-informed sources have said the removal should be completed at the same time as the opening of the Haringsvliet in Holland, at the latest by the end of 2018. A planned, hugely expensive mobile fish passage project is to be replaced by accelerating the adaption of the generation facility between Strassburg and Vogelgrün. This should ensure the free passage of salmon as far as Basel by 2020 in order to meet the conditions of the international agreement.

more information : www.salmoncomeback.org

Great news, rivers recognised as living entities !

In New Zealand and India, 3 rivers has been granted the same legal rights as a human being. These rights can be used to protect the interests of the rivers.

March 15th, the parliament of New Zealand recognised the Whanganui river, the third-longest in the country, as a living entity with the legal status of a person after a 150-year battle by the local Maori people. “The Whanganui River is an indivisible and living whole which includes all its physical and spiritual elements from the mountains of the central North Island to the sea”.

The new status of the river means if someone abused or harmed it the law now sees no differentiation between harming the tribe or harming the river because they are one and the same. The bill allow Whanganui River  to represent its own interests and advocate on its own behalf.

Two guardians will be appointed to act on behalf of the Whanganui river, one from the crown and one from the Whanganui iwi (tribe).

“Ko au te awa. Ko te awa ko au”
“I am the river and the river is me”
. Maori proverb.

Whanganui river, known by the Maoris as Te Awa Tupua, © Prankster – Creative Commons

Few days latter New Zealand, India granted the same statut to the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers.  considered sacred and holy by millions of Indians,  these two rivers have been accorded the status of living entities and granting it the same legal rights as a human being, by the Uttarakhand High Court. The new status means if someone pollutes river Ganga, the law will see it equal to harming a human being.

“The Ganga should be saved for the generations to come,” the court added.

Ganga river at Varanasi © Mukul Kumar singh – CC BY-SA 3.0 – Wikimedia Commons