Danube Watch - The Magazine of the Danube River - www.icpdr.org

see page 20 for Ciobarciu, Romania - Sharing the valuable work done to preserve the Ciobarciu Wetlands is part of a new EU life + project is to to give professionals the information they need to bring rivers back to a natural state.

This includes updates on our input to events in Tulcea, Romania and the Czech Republic. You can also fund out more information on our upcoming events in Brittany, France and our breakfast talk with the New London Architecture.

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Want to know more about river restoration in Europe?

RESTORE has developed a River Wiki to share information on river restoration projects and it is now live. This is an interactive online source of information on river restoration schemes from around Europe.  For example, you can search the database to all the case studies in Finland; case studies that have had monitoring on them or how much it costs to carry out river restoration.

before and after photos of restoration on the River Ravensbourne in London.

Adding your own projects

Please also add your own river restoration scheme to the database.  Please note that you can add projects from

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Including News in August, Forthcoming Events and Previous Events

• Launch of RiverWiki
• CIRF in Latin America
• European Conference on Ecological Restoration
• Sharing good practice: Scotland
• River Restoration Centre 2012 Conference

Last June the Italian Senate Environment Commission called the Italian Centre for River Restoration for a hearing on a legislative proposal on flood risk prevention. CIRF director Andrea Goltara and president Ileana Schipani had the chance to discuss with senators critical issues for river basin management in Italy and especially to highlight benefits of river restoration for flood risk mitigation.

More details (in Italian) on CIRF website.