Join this 1 hour webinar with Jeremy Wade. A dam will be taken down live. Join the DRE Café! Grab an ice-cold beverage and let’s welcome summertime together and free some rivers too!
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JUNE 27th, 2022 | 16:30 – 17:30 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME
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Like all things, dams, weirs and culverts have a lifetime, and many of them are currently obsolete. Thankfully, barrier removal is no longer crazy talk and it’s getting more and more attention. Let’s exchange knowledge and insights and let’s mainstream this movement!
The World Fish Migration Foundation, the Resources Legacy Fund, Rewilding Europe and WWF invite river and restoration practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and students to a 1-hour, international, “infotaining” webinar focusing on the why and how of barrier removals. We will showcase unique projects, interview dam buster heroes, share insights, but first and foremost, we will have fun! The event builds on experience from projects across Europe and the US.
This Dam Removal Europe Cafe is organized by World Fish Migration Foundation on behalf of Dam Removal Europe with sponsorship from Open Rivers Fund, a program of Resources Legacy Fund supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. In-kind support is provided by Rewilding Europe and WWF.
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Program
16:30
Opening
Yurena Lorenzo, Director of Wetlands International, The Netherlands
16:35
Largest weir removal in UK history (live connection from the removal site)
16:41
Mill Creek Dam removal, USA
16:44
Ecological restoration of the Selune River
Laura Soissons from INRAE, France
16:51
Live music break
César Rodríguez from AEMS – Ríos con Vida, Spain
16:53
Breaking news!
16:56
Largest weir removal in UK history (live connection from the removal site)
South Cumbria Rivers Trust, UK
17:02
Live music break
César Rodríguez from AEMS – Ríos con Vida, Spain
17:04
Dam removals in Wales (live connection from the removal site)
Joel Rees-Jones from Natural Resources Wales, UK
17:11
Drawing break
Seppo Leinonen, Finland
17:14
Largest weir removal in UK history (live connection from the removal site)
South Cumbria Rivers Trust, UK
17:20
Be the DRE Café Quiz winner!
Mentimeter quiz for the attendees
17:25
Closure
17:30
End
Registration and questions
For free registration follow this link to EventBrite. For questions regarding the program contact Foivos Mouchlianitis (foivos@fishmigration.org).
Language: English
Sponsors
We are opening for sponsoring by companies and NGO’s. Please contact Herman Wanningen (herman@fishmigration.org) for information about sponsorships.
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