WWF removes 120-year-old obsolete dam in Ukraine to restore rivers in the Carpathian mountains

Despite the war, critical conservation work continues in Ukraine with a WWF team successfully removing an obsolete dam in the Carpathian mountains, opening the river to migratory fish for the first time in 120 years. The dismantling of the clogged and abandoned Bayurivka dam this summer has freed 27km of the Perkalaba river close to Ukraine?s western border with Romania - and removed the risk... ...