The new EUROJERSEY’s project with WWF Italia is for the protection of water in our country thanks to an awareness building campaign for safeguarding rivers.
The new EUROJERSEY’s project with WWF Italia is for the protection of water in our country thanks to an awareness building campaign for safeguarding rivers.
© WWF / Andrija Vrdoljak
The river environment is often defined as a “supermarket of biodiversity” on account of the wealth of living organisms and the unmatched biodiversity that characterise it.
© Michel Gunther / WWF
All ecosystems perform a number of functions, referred to as ecosystem services, which we often underestimate.
© Michel Gunther / WWF
River health is in danger. Land consumption is a major threat, but there are also other factors at play.
© Jasper Van Der Meij on Unsplash
The EU biodiversity strategy for 2020-2030 envisages the restoration of at least 25,000 km of rivers in Europe, of which about 1,600 km in Italy.
© Jose AS Reyes on Shutterstock
The management of water resources offers a unique opportunity to activate participatory processes.
Rivers generate a series of ecosystems that gradually fade into one another in an ecological continuum in their passage from source to their mouth. This natural ecological flow guarantees a series of vital functions for the species that populate it and humans too. But what does happen if the continuum is broken? Andrea Agapito Ludovici presents examples of large and small hydroelectric works, built-in different continents, which have led the local authorities to back-front the decision taken despite the massive economic investments made for their construction. Why? Let’s find out together.