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RESTORE River Wiki goes live

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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

RESTORE Bulletin - August

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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

The Los Angeles river lives again

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Rory Carroll from the Gardian in the UK reports on 'LA's concrete storm drains conceal a living, breathing waterway that has rarely been explored – until now.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/27/los-angeles-river-storm-drains

He writes "The LA river will never compete with the Danube or Seine or Thames as an attraction for stressed city-dwellers. Nor will it inspire many poems or novels. It is too meagre, too hidden, to ever be fully part of the city. But advocates are on to something when they say it can transform perceptions of LA.

After passing a concrete bridge with graffiti-daubed arches and a shopping trolley half-buried in mud, we enter a wilderness that seems a world removed from the freeways and urban sprawl above. "We call this the Grand Canyon," says Wolfe, showing his flair for advertising, as we paddle through a mini-gorge 15ft tall. Nature slowly asserts itself. To our left are wild fig trees, descendants of those planted by the Indians, to our right potentially deadly ricin-producing plants. Further on, hallucinogenic gypsum weed. "Around the next bend is the Apocalypse Now bit," says Wolfe. We encounter "fish sticks": improvised traps made by unknown hands to trap carp, tilapia and other species. A discourse on how to make the traps is drowned out by a passenger jet roaring low overhead, briefly breaking the spell."

for the full article

CIRF heard at the Italian Senate on flood risk and river restoration

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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.

Proposal to bring back beavers to Welsh rivers

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Following the release of  beavers into an enclosure in Cwm Einion near Machynlleth, Powys  2 years ago, the Welsh Beaver Project has published a report outlining a proposal to release beavers back into the river valleys of Wales. In an article by the BBC proponents of the project argue that the beavers will cut flood risk and help boost biodiversity. Project co-ordinator Adrian LLoyd Jones told the BBC that beavers are'gentle and effective managers of wetland and river woodland habitat and that beaver dams would help reduce flash floods by slowing down rivers in spate'

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