LIVING RIVERS Foundation engages in the protection of free rivers and freshwater life, sustainable management of water resources and the revitalisation of rivers landscapes – in Europe and internationally. Together with our partners, we advocate better implementation of policies that treat water as a cross-cutting issue. We also promote the idea of making economics work for the environment and dismantling harmful subsidies.

We believe that Europe can do better in protecting the last wild rivers and removing dams. Therefore we advocate the establishment of a growing network of strictly protected free rivers across Europe.

LIVING RIVERS Foundation is a member of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in Brussel, Europe’s largest federation of environmental citizen’s organizations.

Michael Bender is leading the Foundation’s project-based work in our office in Berlin.