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RECOVERY PLANS
A global team of scientists from WWF and
other organizations launched a pioneering
emergency recovery plan to restore the
health of rivers, lake and wetlands and
reverse the catastrophic decline in freshwater
biodiversity. 2020 saw encouraging signs of
commitment to take action: the EU agreed
to uphold its Water Framework Directive
following campaigning by WWF and others,
supported by 375,000 citizens; Brazil,
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru launched a
WWF-backed river dolphin rescue plan;
and our first ever health assessment of
China's Yangtze river basin included key
recommendations for recovery.

ACTION ON DAMS
We helped stop several damaging
hydropower dams, including on the Mekong
after years of campaigning in Cambodia,
and in Albania, Bosnia and Montenegro.
Dam removal is taking off too, with strong
progress made in Europe thanks to the efforts
of WWF and others. A new EU biodiversity
strategy targets restoring 25,000km of
free-flowing rivers, 27 dams have now been
removed in Finland, and crowdfunding
initiatives have led to 15 dam removals,
including the first to be taken down in
Lithuania and three in Ukraine.

NEW PROTECTION
We've helped win stronger protection for
rivers around the world. A massive expansion
of protected areas in Mongolia brought over
a million hectares of freshwater ecosystems
under protection, including a major tributary
of the free-flowing Amur, the world's 10th
longest river. And a major river landscape,
dubbed " Europe's Amazon " , that stretches
over 700km from Austria to Serbia was
nominated as the first five-nation
UNESCO biosphere reserve
after over 20 years'

Chair of community forest
user group, Nepal. Water
for all is possible but only if
we invest in protecting and
restoring healthy rivers,
lakes and wetlands.

© Karine Aigne / WWF-US

preparatory work.

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