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The most comprehensive overview of river fragmentation in Europe is provided by the recently published Pan-European Atlas of In-Stream Barriers.[1] The Atlas contains information on 630 000 barriers including not only large dams, but also hundreds of thousands of smaller weirs, ramps, fords and culverts. However, researchers have recently found that more than one third of barriers on European rivers are unrecorded, bringing the total to well over 1 million. This scale of river fragmentation is alarming and makes Europe the most fragmented river landscape in the world, with hardly any unfragmented, free-flowing rivers left (WWF, 2020). [2]

[1] Produced by the EU Horizon 2020 project Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers (AMBER): https://amber.international/european-barrier-atlas/

[2] WWF, 2020, More than 1 million barriers destroying Europe’s rivers, new research shows, accessed 27^th July 2020, https://www.wwf.eu/wwf_news/media_centre/?uNewsID=364559