...uvial forests. They also host Latvia's highest breeding densities of the LIFE priority bird species Crex crex (400-685 individuals) and Aquila pomarina (59-120 individuals), as well as a third of the Latvian Gallingo media population (59-120 individuals).
The main threat to these floodplains came from their fragmentation and from a lack of management; most had been abandoned and were gradually be ...