Floodplains under Pressure: A Natural System to Preserve and Restore – Webinar

Floodplains are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an essential role in the self-purification of the river and the groundwater recharge. Floodplains are natural habitat for many endangered species. They contribute to flood risk reduction by slowing flood discharges and storing water. Floodplains are under extreme pressure. More than 80 per cent have been lost in the Danube River Basin.

Join the 1st DanubeFloodplain webinar on 28 June and learn about the floodplain losses and get familiar with the importance of the floodplains for flood protection, ecology, and others. Discover methods for floodplain evaluation.

More information and registration on the Danube Floodplain website.

Press trips in romania and hungary

After the ease of pandemic, press trips were organized in Romania and Hungary.

The Romanian press trip took place on 13 May in the Bistret project area. It was jointly organized by NARW and MoEnv.

In Hungary, KÖTIVIZIG and WWF Hungary organized the press trip on 22 June to Szolnok. The participant visited the Fokorúpuszta project site.

At both events participants learned about the results of the project and got an insight to the fieldworks on the project sites.

Read more about the two press trips on the project’s website.

Floodplains in focus: how we can make them suitable for mitigating extreme hydrological events again? – Article about the project in Danube Connects magazine

Danube Floodplain project aims an improvement of transnational integrative water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation through restoration of floodplains, combination of classical and green infrastructure, natural retention measures, involving stakeholders.

In the last decades, heavy alteration of wetland ecosystems characterized the land use. Since 1970, 90 per cent of the global wetlands have disappeared together with 84 per cent of vertebrate species. Along the Danube 70 per cent of the floodplains have been separated from rivers and on the remaining ones there is an extreme pressure to provide a variety of services.

For the article visit: https://danube-connects.eu/language/en/focus-on-floodplains/ (EN) or https://danube-connects.eu/auen-im-fokus/ (DE).

Danube Floodplain at the 32nd ICPDR meeting

Experts of the University of Szeged presented the online maps of the Danube Floodplain project and discussed specific aspects of the “light integration” of their project results into DanubeGIS at the IMGIS EG Meeting facilitated by JCWI and taken place at the 32nd meeting of ICPDR (held online, on 21-22 April 2021).