Die Trave - Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland - National Wild and Scenic Rivers on Waymarking.com

In 2016, the German chapter of Friends of Nature declared the River Trave as the River Landscape of the year (Flusslandschaft des Jahres).

Since the website is only available in German, I translated part of the reason for this award:

The Trave, for example, is the second longest river in Schleswig-Holstein and is completely protected. The local state government has registered the entire course of the river, including adjacent nature reserves, as so-called flora-fauna habitats (FFH) and thus integrated it into the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas.

The Trave river landscape is particularly interesting for nature conservation because of its widely interconnected different habitat types. For example, the lower reaches of the Trave are home to the endangered sea lamprey and the highly endangered river lamprey, as well as the strictly protected common river mussel, and the moor frog, which is also strictly protected. The entire Trave water system - the river drains 80 lakes and has a catchment area of 2,676 square kilometres - is also the habitat of the endangered otter.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

WILD: yes Number of WILD miles: 40 miles SCENIC: yes Number of SCENIC miles: 77 miles RECREATIONAL: yes Number of RECREATIONAL miles: 77 miles River Link: [Web Link] Support documentation: [Web Link]

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