Entries by Corinne Ronot

8 October is Dam Removal Day: register your events

8 October 2025 will mark the very first Dam Removal Day. Across Europe, visits and meetings will highlight the same message: free rivers bring life back. Everyone can get involved: organise an event, share a local story, spread the word on social media. 👉 Register your action atdamremoval.eu/dam-removal-day

Tribute to Jean Wencker

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Jean Wencker in August 2025. Jean Wencker devoted much of his life to protecting the environment and restoring aquatic habitats. As former president and then vice-president of Alsace Nature, he represented the association in numerous bodies: the International Commission for the Protection of […]

💧 EU Water Pollution Standards: Time to Act 💧

EU representatives were due to reach an agreement on updating water pollution standards on 15 July, but negotiations have once again been postponed until 23 September. We’re nearing 3 years since the European Commission proposed long-overdue updates to regulate pharmaceuticals, more pesticides, and PFAS in surface and groundwater. This delay is becoming something of a […]

The Living Rivers Europe Coalition urges Environment Ministers to support the upcoming Council conclusions on the European Water Resilience Strategy

 In light of increasing water scarcity, pollution, floods, and ecosystem degradation, the coalition calls for prioritising the restoration of the natural water cycle and ensuring access to clean water. The success of the Strategy depends on fully implementing existing EU water and nature laws, particularly the Water Framework Directive, and on integrating water resilience into all […]

SNB 2030 remains an ambitious framework, but its success will depend on the ability to remove the obstacles identified by the CNB.

The National Biodiversity Strategy 2030 aims to translate France’s commitment under the global biodiversity framework adopted in Montreal in December 2022 into concrete actions. Its ambition is clear: to halt and then reverse the collapse of biodiversity by 2030, in line with European and international objectives. The strategy is structured around four main areas and […]

European water resilience strategy: ambition hampered by a lack of concrete commitments

On June 4, 2025, the European Commission presented its EU water resilience strategy, a much-anticipated document at a time when shortages, floods, and pollution are increasingly threatening aquatic ecosystems. But behind the stated intentions, the content is disappointing. This document, which is supposed to respond to the call made by the Living Rivers Europe coalition […]

Public consultation to help preparation of the Nature Restauration plans

France is launching a public consultation on its future national plan on the “Nature restaration law.” The plan aims to restore degraded natural environments in accordance with the new European regulation on nature restoration. The European Union’s target is to restore at least 20% of terrestrial and marine areas by 2030, with intermediate stages in […]

Another hydroelectric power station authorized on an ecologically sensitive river

On May 14, 2025, the Lyon administrative court of appeal validated the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Sallanche river, a tributary of the Arve (in Haute Savoie). FNE had challenged the prefectoral environmental authorization order in 2019, as the project threatened this river, classified as a biological reservoir, and diverted more than […]