Restoring floodplains for Europe main rivers
5 years ago
Bringing back the natural water bodies and forest habitats on the floodplains landscape will increase the biodiversity in the area, will diversify and improve the ecosystems services. With the restoration works, the degradation of species population, of habitats and on landscape in general will be stopped and provisioning ecosystem services will be changed from agriculture crops to aquaculture and fishery. The regulation services will increase significant like: flood mitigation and water purification; also the cultural services will be diversified to facilitate the development of new local businesses like tourism and sport fishery. Also, the examples of the restored area should be inspirational for other similar areas along the large rivers of Europe to encourage decision makers to transform landscape dominated by agriculture into balanced landscape were natural ecosystems are healthy and able to provided necessary services for local community to thrive.
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