Reference network

Nine wetlands.
Nine quietly different stories.

The sites that anchor every score the PESTLE profiler returns. They span Atlantic estuaries, Pannonian marshes, boreal floodplains and high-altitude lakes.

01

Portugal

Sado Estuary

Coastal estuary & salt marsh

Tidal restoration and salt-marsh re-establishment in an Atlantic estuary.

02

Sweden

Helge å lower basin

Boreal floodplain

Re-wetting and floodplain re-connection in a temperate-boreal river system.

03

Armenia

Lake Sevan basin

High-altitude freshwater lake

Catchment-scale interventions in a high-elevation lacustrine system.

04

Belgium

Schelde polders

Managed tidal polders

Controlled reduced tide and de-polderisation along the Schelde estuary.

05

Ukraine

Desna floodplain

Lowland river floodplain

Floodplain wetland restoration in a major Dnipro tributary.

06

Austria

Lobau, Vienna

Urban floodplain forest

Re-connecting Danube side-arms in a peri-urban national park.

07

Serbia

Carska Bara

Pannonian wetland complex

Mosaic of marshes, fens and oxbows in the central Pannonian plain.

08

Romania

Danube Delta

Delta wetland mosaic

Large-scale delta restoration in Europe's most extensive wetland.

09

Slovakia

Senianska kotlina

Lowland flooded grassland

Seasonal flooding and meadow management in a Pannonian basin.

Wetland reeds against still water