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

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'

Read the latest bulletin of the Restore Partnership for Ecological River Restoration in Europe. This is the July 2012 edtion.

Open Country, a Radio 4 programme dedicated to British wildlife and landscape, takes a look this week at the decline in eel populations in the UK.