Restoring ecosystems for life
Restoring ecosystems across land and sea
Restoring ecosystems for generations to come
Restoration Works: seven projects; seven years of restoration impact.
Habitats across Europe are degrading at alarming rates. Our mission is to reverse that change.
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme is building a future in which landscapes and seascapes are enriched with biodiversity, establishing resilient and more self-sustaining ecosystems that benefit both nature and people.
million dollars (USD) pledged for restoration in Europe.
largescale restoration projects supported.
million ha of land and sea projected to be influenced by project actions.
communities benefiting from project actions.
IUCN Globally Threatened Species benefiting from project actions.
204,955 hectares of land and sea directly under restoration.
USD of co-funding secured across projects and the programme.
Carpathian Mountains
Romania
In Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains, vast forests and alpine meadows shelter bears, wolves and lynx. But logging, overgrazing and fragmentation have eroded ecosystems and led to the decline and disappearance of species. Foundation Conservation Carpathia is restoring habitats and securing land to establish a 200,000-hectare national reserve for nature and people.
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Făgăraș Mountains, Southern Carpathians
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Romania
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2019-2025
Iori River Valley
The Iori River Valley forms part of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot and supports a unique blend of steppe and forest habitats. This landscape is home to threatened species, long-standing pastoral traditions, and a network of communities dependent on the land and water for their livelihoods.
Historical fisheries in Sejerø Bay
For decades, Denmark’s Sejerø Bay supported abundant cod, herring and lumpfish, with fishing central to life in its coastal communities. Today, commercial fishing within the bay has almost disappeared. Drawing on local fishers’ memories, historical landing records and tagging studies, this article traces that decline and explores how understanding the past can inform ecological recovery. Led by WWF Denmark and supported by the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme, the Sejerø Seascape project aims to restore stone reefs, eelgrass meadows and blue mussel beds, release juvenile cod and involve local communities in restoring and caring for the bay.
Fifteen new planning grants awarded to advance landscape and seascape restoration
Restoring nature, rebuilding hope in Ukraine’s Danube Delta
Meet Bienvenido, the first bison calf born in the Iberian Highlands herd
Fewer sheep, greater value: a new approach to pastoralism in Georgia
