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Background The Wachau Valley is one of the last free-flowing sections of the Austrian Danube, hosting several natural habitat types and species of community interest. The area is, however, affected by a number of threats: the regulatory measures put in place in the 19th and 20th centuries have strongly separated the floodplain and the river, preventing re ...

Background The Danube winds through one of Austria’s most romantic gorges, the Wachau, between Krems and Melk. This important east-west corridor has for a long time been an attractive place to settle, as evidenced by the exquisite cultural legacies of the Venus of Willendorf and the baroque abbey Stift Melk. However, the geography and biodiversity of th ...