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How WWF Restores Rivers For Resilience
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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.
This is a conversation from the Reservoir Center in Washington, D.C.
waterloop is a nonprofit news outlet.
276 episodes
Manage episode 493799558 series 2877118
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.
This is a conversation from the Reservoir Center in Washington, D.C.
waterloop is a nonprofit news outlet.
276 episodes
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