Programme nearbyRewildingZagrebVisit and volunteer at Lonjsko Polje floodplainWalk Europe's great Sava floodplain Lonjsko Polje Nature Park joined the European Rewilding Network as a Wilder Parks frontrunner. More than 50,000 hectares of alluvial forest, pasture, and villages along the Sava still flood with the river. Visitors cycle stork villages; gardeners can join the park's traditional gardener volunteer programme. What you can do - Start at visitor centres in Čigoč or Krapje for maps, bike hire, and guided floodplain walks (park site) - Apply for the Tradicijski vrtlar volunteer programme when spring calls open - Read why the park joined the network on Rewilding Europe How it works Park staff reconnect oxbows, expand natural grazing, and host visitors who learn floodplain culture without inventing a new landscape. Volunteers tend traditional courtyard gardens during multi-day spring sessions with board provided. Why it matters Floodplains that still breathe with the river protect villages downstream and keep storks, eagles, and pasture herds in one living system.Lonjsko Poljefloodplainvolunteer +2
Programme nearbyRewildingBratislavaRestore Danube floodplains with BROZReconnect side channels where the river still remembers Conservation association BROZ joined the European Rewilding Network with its Rewilding Rivers and Danube Floodplains work. Nearly thirty years of wetland repair have restored about 1,200 hectares of wetlands, more than 30 kilometres of side channels, and 1,500 hectares of grazing land in south-west Slovakia. What you can do - Follow project updates and public events on broz.sk - Visit accessible Dunajské luhy floodplain areas near Bratislava with care for nesting seasons - Offer skills (monitoring, community outreach, natural grazing) when BROZ lists volunteer or partner calls How it works Teams reopen side arms, revive meadows with grazing, and work with municipalities so flood peaks have room again. ERN membership links Slovak practitioners with river rewilders across Europe. Why it matters A living Danube fringe cools cities, stores water, and brings fish and birds back without waiting for a distant mega-project.DanubeBROZfloodplain +2
Programme nearbyRewildingHeidelbergJoin Aktionsbündnis Unterer Neckar in HeidelbergJoin Aktionsbündnis Unterer Neckar in Heidelberg Aktionsbündnis Unterer Neckar (AUN) is a NABU, BUND, LNV, and neighbour alliance for the last living floodplain stretch of the Neckar. Groups from Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ilvesheim, and Ladenburg share news, dam-care notes, and site walks. This is floodplain stewardship, not a sponge-unsealing group. What you can do - Read the AUN programme page and contact the speakers - Join a monthly alliance evening (in 2026 many nights are online via Zoom; confirm the format) - Walk the named nature reserves along the lower Neckar when the group announces a Begehung How it works The alliance formed in 2015. Coordinator Regine Buyer keeps the information flow between local groups. Solarpunker does not host the Zoom room or the Welthaus table: check the organiser before you travel. Why it matters A living Neckar floodplain needs people who show up for kingfishers, little-ringed plovers, and high-water space at the same time.floodplainriveralliance +1
Programme nearbyRewildingDuisburgHelp pollard willows in Rheinaue Walsum in DuisburgHelp pollard willows in Rheinaue Walsum in Duisburg BUND Kreisgruppe Duisburg keeps a winter tradition of pollarding willows (Kopfbaumschnitt) in Rheinaue Walsum. Helpers are welcome. The 2025/26 dates on the news page ran through early 2026; ask the group for the next winter (2026/27) mornings rather than treating those past dates as still current. What you can do - Read Kopfbaumschneiden in der Rheinaue Walsum and ask for the coming winter list - Meet at the Kaiserstr. / Kleine Wardtstraße car park at 10:00 when a cut is on - Pre-book if you need willow rods for a Kita or school: not every morning is a cutting morning How it works Seasonal winter work, usually Saturday 10:00 at the floodplain car park. Solarpunker does not set the next date. Why it matters Pollarded willows along the Rhine keep hollows, shoots, and floodplain structure that birds and insects use year after year.willowfloodplainrhine +1
