The Open Rivers Program announces the next call for applications for 7 July 2023 (5th sessions since the programme began, deadline for application : 1st September). For this call, organisations from all over Europe are encouraged to apply for all grant categories. A new feature of this call for proposals is that public-sector support structures […]
June 15 MEPs from ENVI Comission saved the Nature Restauration Law project, the amendment to reject the legal proposal did not pass, although with the smallest margin possible (44/44). Compromise amendment 6 on Article 7 (river connectivity) was approved, which means that the 25,000 barrier removal target is – so far – still in the […]
The Nature Restoration Law, which will be shortly put to vote in the European Parliament, sets the target of restoring at least 25,000 km of free-flowing watercourses by 2030 (Article 7) in order to improve the natural longitudinal and lateral connectivity of watercourses. These objectives complement the obligations of the Water Framework Directive and is […]
To mark World Oceans Day on 8 June, Patagonia is launching a global campaign to protect and restore the oceans. While this is a global campaign for Patagonia, we have a clear and specific ask for our leaders across Europe: “Bottom trawling is bulldozing our ocean floor, undermining small-scale fisheries, and deepening the climate crisis. We […]
The latest report uncovers a surprising figure of (at least) 325 barriers have been removed in 16 European countries – a new record! As in 2021, most of the removed barriers were weirs, as these structures have a high probability of being old and obsolete and can be removed in a cost-efficient way. But large […]
On the occasion of World Water Day on 22 March and with a particularly dry spring and tensions on the resource already high, the media in the Haute Loire did not fail to talk about water sharing and the project we are proposing around the renewal of the Montpezat concession. Read the special report and […]
Ten years after the last meeting, SOS Loire Vivante – ERN is organising a new conference on the Loire salmon. This is an opportunity to take stock of the situation of the Atlantic salmon in the Loire and elsewhere. National and international experts will try to understand the reasons for the decline despite restoration efforts […]
The Sélune has been free since last autumn. After the dismantling of the two large dams, the path is free for sediment and migratory fish for almost 100 km. In a 12-minute video (in French and English) with spectacular images, you can follow the steps of the renaturalisation: Video in french https://vimeo.com/549070141 Video in english […]
ERN and more than 100 NGOs write to EU negotiators asking them to protect Europe’s rivers from new hydropower deployment in the revised Renewable Energy directive. Already in 2020, 150 NGOs signed a manifesto asking EU decision-makers to stop new hydropower development in Europe. Read the WWF press release: Ahead of the nextpolitical trilogue on […]
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ERN is the official WWF Freshwater Partner in France and cooperates with WWF Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands and others
