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Living Rivers for Germany

The NABU vision

The widening and regulation of rivers have, in the past, led to a series of impacts ranging from damages caused by floods, problems with water power, the loss of wetlands as well as the ongoing widening and regulation of tributaries flowing into main rivers. The public has become involved in a controversial debate on the general question of whether river regulaton is even necessary. Mehr

Restoration of the Lower Havel River

Re-introduction of river bank vegetation benefits river corridor

Funding by the Federal government and the Länder Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt will enable NABU to carry out a restoration program to return the local ecology to the Lower Havel River in the next 13 years. The Lower Havel River catchment is the largest and most important inland wetland in Central Europe. Mehr

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