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| − | + | During the last decades of the 20th century, the Danube Delta has suffered from human interventions that led to dramatic changes in some areas. These interventions consisted in the dyking of large areas for the purpose of agricultural use, intensive fish-farming and forestry, which resulted in dramatic alterations or disturbances of the water balance. This had effects on the alteration of natural processes, the ecological balance as well as the characteristic functions of wetlands and led to a deterioration, or worse the loss of area-specific habitats. When the transformation measures were stopped in early 1990, the dyked area covered 97.408 ha (22 %) of the total 482.592 ha, including Babina polder(2100 ha), designed to be a rice polder but abandoned before to be fully built. Studies for rehabilitation/restoration measures were started in the Danube Delta immediately following its declaration as Biosphere Reserve in 1990. | |
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Revision as of 06:04, 26 May 2010
Babina
Key features of the case study
Site description
During the last decades of the 20th century, the Danube Delta has suffered from human interventions that led to dramatic changes in some areas. These interventions consisted in the dyking of large areas for the purpose of agricultural use, intensive fish-farming and forestry, which resulted in dramatic alterations or disturbances of the water balance. This had effects on the alteration of natural processes, the ecological balance as well as the characteristic functions of wetlands and led to a deterioration, or worse the loss of area-specific habitats. When the transformation measures were stopped in early 1990, the dyked area covered 97.408 ha (22 %) of the total 482.592 ha, including Babina polder(2100 ha), designed to be a rice polder but abandoned before to be fully built. Studies for rehabilitation/restoration measures were started in the Danube Delta immediately following its declaration as Biosphere Reserve in 1990.
Measures selection
Success criteria
Ecological response
Hydromorphological response
Monitoring before and after implementation of the project
Socio-economic aspects
Contact person within the organization
Marian Tudor
mtudor@indd.tim.ro
Extra background information
References
