Donauried

The Donauried (German pronunciation: [ˈdoːnaʊˌʁiːt]) is a river landscape around the Danube in western Bavaria between Neu-Ulm and Donauwörth.

In addition, the man-made reservoirs near Faimingen, the Swabian Donaumoos between Ulm and Gundelfingen as well as the Gundelfingen park landscape in this wetland region of the Danube are of international importance under to the Ramsar Convention, the international treaty on wetlands.

Birds, amphibians, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, crickets and butterflies have their habitats in the fens.

A particular success in recent years has been the recolonisation by the white stork (Offingen, Gundelfingen, Lauingen, Höchstädt).

As a result of the rapid drainage of ground and surface water into the Danube and the river's cutting into the riverbed the groundwater level threatens to sink further.