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Tag Archives: fish migration
Activist to Pay Compensations to Power Company for “Damaging the Dam” with Art!
The Kemijoki River in Northern Finland was once maybe the best salmon river in Europe.
The river was dammed after the World War II, and no fish passages were built, so the local salmon population was lost.
Kemijoki Ltd has now 16 hydro power plants in the Kemijoki River. The company wants to build one more with […]
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Tagged art, fish, fish migration, fishing, hydro power, law, restoration, rivers, salmon, water framework directive
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Älvräddarna – River Savers from Sweden
Älvräddarna is a Swedish nationwide organization that works for environmental adaptation of the necessary hydropower and decommissioning of the unnecessary.
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Tagged dam removal, fish migration, fishes, restoration, rivers, water framework directive
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Freshwater Fish are in Trouble
“With hydropower, overfishing, climate change and pollution on the rise, populations of migratory freshwater fish species have plummeted globally by 76% on average since 1970, including a 93% collapse in Europe.”
93% collapse in migratory freshwater fish populations in Europe – new report
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Tagged biodiversity, conservation, endangered species, fish, fish migration, freshwater, lakes, restoration, rivers
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Help Salmon Find Their Spawning Ground
Several dams were constructed to this river 70 years ago, and salmon could no longer swim up the river to spawn. Now humans have removed dams and built fish passages.
Salmon can run up again!
Help salmon find their spawning ground!
At the same time you also help freshwater pearl mussels.
Freshwater pearl mussels can live very long, over […]
EU Water Law is Fit for Purpose!
Christmas comes early for rivers and nature:
The European Commission’s final evaluation of EU water legislation has concluded the EU Water Framework Directive to be “fit for purpose”.
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Tagged beaver, fish migration, lakes, rivers, water framework directive, waters, wetland, wfd, wwf
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