How WWF Restores Rivers For Resilience
Published on by Travis Loop, Founder of waterloop, a nonprofit news outlet exploring solutions for sustainability in water.
Healthy rivers are essential for thriving communities, and smart, nature-based solutions are proving crucial to turning things around in a changing climate.
In this episode, Derek Vollmer, Director of Waterscapes for the World Wildlife Fund, shares how their program uses innovative, place-based strategies to restore rivers and build resilience worldwide.
From the US-Mexico border, solutions for the Rio Grande include removing invasive trees and optimizing dam operations to restore flow and support wildlife. In Pakistan, the groundbreaking Recharge Pakistan project uses ecosystem restoration, like forests and wetlands, to reduce both flood and drought risks. Further, lessons from the Netherlands' Room for the River program show how giving rivers space to ebb and flow can protect communities from climate impacts, providing powerful insights for the U.S.
Attached link
https://bit.ly/RiversWWFTaxonomy
- River Studies
- Restoration
- River Restoration
- Climate Change Resilience
- Climate
- Ecosystem Restoration
- Pakistan
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Thanks much for sharing Travis.
Nature is a winner, always has been.
We need more people acknowledging that.