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Unsustainable industries are lobbying for devastating changes to the EU water law
Unsustainable industries, including industrial agriculture, hydropower, and coal mining, are lobbying for devastating changes to the EU water law – the Water Framework Directive (WFD).
The future of EU rivers: New paper exposes business lobbies’ wish list of destruction
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Tagged action, agriculture, conservation, EU, fish migration, industry, rivers, water framework directive, wetland, wwf
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It’s the Bird Week for Kids!
Birdlife Finland has organized a Bird Week for Kids since 2004. This year 2019 it’ll be May 13th – 19th.
Here’s a Finnish article about the Bird Week for Kids Google translated in English.
Easter Bunnies & Salmon Eggs
“Rivers have always provided fundamental and vital services for mankind and the environment. However, dams disrupt the natural functioning of rivers and can cause a wide-scale decline in fish and other river wildlife. For these reasons, it is necessary to remove these barriers to return rivers to their natural, free-flowing state.”
Dam Removal Europe
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Tagged biodiversity, dam removal, endangered species, fish migration, fishes, lakes and seas, rivers
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Live Map of Migrating Birds in Europe
Follow the migration of birds!
The LIVE Euro Bird Portal viewer shows the distribution of 105 bird species on weekly animated maps from January 2010 up to the current week.
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Tagged birders, birdlife, birds, conservation, migration, monitoring
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Restoration of Urban Longinoja Brook Wins Finnish Biodiversity Award
The Longinoja Creek restoration project
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Tagged biodiversity, fish migration, restoration, rivers, trout
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