Combine of wetlands along the Inn River
Restoration measures at several sites
- Topic area
- Environment, biodiversity, nature conservation
- Agriculture and forestry, incl. value chain
- Disaggregation level
- Biodiversity
- ÖPUL
- Protected areas
- Water
- Site development
- Nature conservation
- Project region
- Tyrol
- LE– Programming Period
- LE 07–13
- Project period
- 2008-2011
- Project costs overall
- 420.000 EUR
- Project initiator
- Land Tirol, Abt. Umweltschutz / Federal Province of Tyrol, Dep. Environmental Protection
LE 07-13 information
Themenbereich (Untergliederung): ÖPUL und Umwelt (Biodiversität, ÖPUL, Schutzgebiete, Wasser)
Themenbereich (Untergliederung): Zukunft Land (Standortentwicklung, Umwelt und Naturschutz)
Maßnahme: M323
Short description
Along the Inn River and its tributaries restoration projects are planned and implemented in the areas of several Tyrolean municipalities. Of about 1,600 hectares of wetland forests in 1855 only about 5% still exist today. By regenerating wetland forests, brooks in wetlands, stagnant pools and ponds, which formerly were frequent in the entire Inn Valley, valuable habitats are to be restored along the Inn. Due to the deepening of the Inn and insurmountable obstacles like river engineering structures brook tributaries are often no longer accessible for aquatic organisms and fish. However, as they are indispensable habitats, they should become passable again. Remains of common alder wetland forests are frequently cut off from the flood regime as a result of the deepening of the Inn. By means of the measures the wetland areas are again to be linked to the flood regime.
Targets and target groups
Establishment of natural habitats along the Inn River, linking-up of tributary waters.