Our Impact
Restoration Works: seven projects; seven years of restoration impact.
Building the evidence base for restoration
Restoring landscapes and seascapes is no simple task. These projects are large-scale, complex, and take years – often decades – to show results.
That’s why an evidence-based approach is essential. Yet across Europe, there’s still a shortage of studies documenting restoration outcomes, making it harder to shape policy and practice around solid scientific insight.
We’re working to change that.
Examples across our projects
Monitoring landscape and seascape restoration
We work with the projects that we fund to design and carry out effective monitoring and to implement restoration trials to assess the impact of restoration actions.
Visit our Monitoring Hub to learn more about the monitoring being carried out in our largescale restoration projects across Europe.
Our Key Performance Indicators
We also track our progress at a programme level through a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Explore our KPI dashboard to learn more about how we are contributing to delivery of the targets of multilateral environmental agreements.
Our first seven projects completed their funding period in 2026.
From the coast of Türkiye to the Carpathian Mountains, these projects provide inspirational examples of what can be achieved when non-governmental organisations, government agencies, landowners, the private sector, and communities work together.
A safe haven for the future: restoring Romania’s Carpathian Mountains
First satellite-tagged angel shark marks milestone for Lemnos restoration project
Songs of the Watershed: Katja Malinen on music, memory and restoration
The return of the wild in Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley
Can Europe produce enough native oysters for restoration?
