News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

After rehabilitating 450 meters of waterway to promote biodiversity at Lyon’s Confluence and Guillotière areas, the Des Espèces Parmi Lyon association is now undertaking the ecological restoration of the Saône’s lower harbors, right in the heart of Lyon! The project, initiated and led by the association, is unique in that it aims to transform a […]

  Rivers supply essential services to society, but their exploitation by human beings has constantly fragmented them. In Europe, more than a million obstacles impede the free flow of rivers and disturb the balance of these ecosystems.    Considerable and underestimated fragmentation   The fragmentation of rivers entails modifying their ecological continuity by placing obstacles […]

Despite a preoccupying situation at the end of April, the perspective of a major drought for summer 2020 has become less ominous for France. However, for Poland and the United States, the situation is particularly worrying. At the end of April, the American journal Science published the conclusions of research carried out by the Earth […]

  8 million tonnes of plastic are discarded into the oceans every year and 80% of this plastic waste found in the seas comes from dry land.  In the European rivers studied during the scientific mission, MicroPlastiques2019, carried out by the Fondation Tara Océan, plastics were omnipresent, already in fragmented and microplastic form. And they […]