Join us at the “Together for Rivers” event on September 18, 2026, in Goleniów, Poland. Together with partners, we are bringing back a species whose presence protects the entire river ecosystem. We are also working on the renaturation of further rivers in West Pomerania.

Beavers are the secret landscape architects of the natural world—yet they nearly vanished forever. Thanks to conservation efforts, their populations are recovering. Together with Planet Wild, we are now transforming a decommissioned fish farm into a beaver paradise to ensure their survival and peaceful coexistence with humans.

The contracting authority is conducting an expression-of-interest procedure to give interested companies the opportunity to participate in this project.

Just last week, residents of Rothenklempenow, Germany, reported a rare juvenile Griffon Vulture, a species usually found in Southern Europe and North Africa. Its presence in Northern Germany may signal a broader ecological shift driven by conservation and natural migration.

The Baltic Sea is under pressure – but it’s also brimming with possibilities for protection. Our new brochure “Sea of Opportunities: Collaborating Towards Effective Protection and Restoration of the Baltic Sea” takes you straight into the heart of the action. Through the Baltic Coast Dialog-project (2023–2025), Rewilding Oder Delta and five partner organisations explored the Baltic Sea and its shores, talking with people across borders, uncovering what really works, and discovering where nature needs a helping hand. You’ll see why protected areas alone are not enough, why EU law now demands restoration, and how collaboration across countries can turn good intentions into real change. Full of insights and practical lessons, this brochure isn’t just a report – it’s a call to dive in, learn, and join the effort.

Working together for the comeback of large herbivores in the Oder Delta – Large wild animals such as moose and bison are not only fascinating to observe – they shape entire landscapes and strengthen the resilience of our ecosystems. Transboundary knowledge exchange, cooperation and understanding are necessary for their successful and well-managed, naturally occurring return to Germany. For the past four years, a German-Polish working group has been collaborating to jointly develop monitoring and management approaches for these species, paving the way for peaceful coexistence between humans and animals.

Thanks to funding support from the Open Rivers Programme, a vital next step towards restoring nature and biodiversity in the Baltic region has begun.

Thanks to continued support from the Open Rivers Programme, a new restoration project will remove two barriers on the Wołczenica River and one on the Sławęcinka River. This will open 47 kilometres of free-flowing water for fish and other aquatic wildlife. The intervention will halt harmful riverbed erosion, bring back more natural river flows, and strengthen the region’s resilience to climate change.

Beavers had been almost completely eradicated in Europe, but their return to the Peene River 50 years ago marked a turning point for natural climate protection. Beavers have a significant impact on our waters: they build dams out of branches, mud and wood, which dam up the water and create ponds, shallow water zones and wetlands. In doing so, the beaver creates the foundations for life that ensure the survival of many species, e.g. food sources and breeding grounds. It thus ensures the creation of new habitats for numerous animal and plant species in the region, such as the bulbous snail, brook lamprey, river lamprey and otter.

Upon invitation of Rewilding Oder Delta, around 30 representatives of various stakeholder groups such as Bauernverband Ostvorpommern and Tourismusverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, state authorities from Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as federal authorities met on July 9th and 10th 2024 in Stralsund to talk about the restoration and benefits of salt marshes.