MERLIN Podcast: Bringing Europe’s freshwaters back to life28 Loka 2024

Why community matters to freshwater restoration

It's increasingly recognised that restoring damaged ecosystems is not only about improving habitats for wildlife, it is also vital to consider the needs of the people who live and work in a restoration landscape.

In this podcast we hear stories about how community has been placed at the heart of freshwater restoration projects. We hear from Tal Marciano Ratner about how the restoration of the Tzipori watershed in Israel offers a meeting place for people from different religions and ethnicities to come together in a time of great unrest and conflict.

Ruben Rocha from Dam Removal Europe talks about the challenges of communicating the benefits of dam removal to local communities, and describes how he is beginning to see the demand for removal projects coming from communities themselves. Roland Bischof and Julia von Gönner from iDiv in Germany tell us about the innovative citizen science work in the FLOW project, where the public can help scientists generate valuable data about the health of their streams.

Robert Arlinghaus from IGB and Humboldt University in Germany describes his long-standing work with angling communities, outlining how a productive form of aquatic stewardship can emerge from their interactions with nature. Finally, María Sánchez from ECOLISE outlines how community-led initiatives across Europe are helping give people a stronger voice in shaping environmental restoration.

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Four years, 18 sites, one mission: bringing Europe's freshwaters back to life

In March 2026, MERLIN scientific coordinator Daniel Hering stood before a Brussels room full of European policymakers and set out what four years of freshwater restoration had found. The evidence is c...

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How do you mainstream freshwater restoration across an entire continent?

The Nature Restoration Regulation is now European law. National Restoration Plans are being written. The targets are set. So why does transformative, large-scale ecological restoration remain so stubb...

7 Huhti 45min

How can water-friendly farming be mainstreamed in Europe?

Freshwater restoration should be at the heart of how farming is managed in Europe, according to new recommendations.Reshaping the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support freshwater ecosystems by e...

15 Tammi 20min

Sharing cutting-edge information on freshwater restoration in the MERLIN Academy

In this podcast we take a tour of the MERLIN Academy, an online platform which offers free resources and training to support researchers, practitioners and policy makers in applying cutting-edge fresh...

19 Marras 202530min

How nature-based solutions can support people and nature in freshwater restoration

Harnessing the potential of natural processes in freshwater restoration can create significant ecological, social and economic benefits, according to a major new report. Researchers from the MERLIN pr...

21 Elo 202523min

Communicating why freshwater restoration is vital

Restoring our natural ecosystems is a task that is never really finished: science progresses; governments change; technology advances; society shifts; funding pots appear and disappear. And all the ti...

26 Touko 202530min

Restoring Europe's landscapes through the Green Deal and Nature Restoration Law

In this podcast we take a behind the scenes look at environmental restoration in Europe on the cusp of what will likely prove to be a transformative year. First, we find out about the EU’s big environ...

23 Tammi 202544min