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Returning rivers to the fish

25-07-2012

Major changes to river ecosystems brought aboutby mankindover the years have had a negative impact on nature’s biodiversity.Rivers have suffered immensely from timber rafting, the construction of various hydraulic facilities, intensive navigation and agriculture. Populations of migratory fish have decreased or disappeared altogether, partly because of illegal fishing. The Baltic salmon has now been registered as an endangered species. This is a story about how an ENPI project co-funded by the European Union, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Finland is trying to bring back biodiversity to the rivers and to recover fish population levels. You could call it returning rivers to the fish…

This is part of a series of features on projects funded by the EU’s Regional Programme, prepared by journalists and photographers on the ground or the EU Neighbourhood Info Centre, available in  English and Russian (EU Neighbourhood Info)

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