River and Wetland Restoration in Greece: Lessons from Biodiversity Conservation Initiatives

摘要: Rivers in Greece have seen extensive human-induced degradation, and there are increasing demands on the goods services they provide along with threats from future anthropogenic pressures. These multi-scale alterations to rivers associated wetlands riparian zones severely impacted biodiversity. The Greek government has responded by creating various new protected areas promoting interest conservation, while attention monitoring waters increased implementation of EU WFD. Unfortunately, bioassessment-based monitoring, long-term conservation programmes restoration actions lagged behind other countries. Here we outline state river wetland progress; describe key examples discuss shortcomings, pitfalls opportunities aspects restoration.