Last updated: June 2024
This NBS is implemented on a nature reserve site, Ciuperceni-Desa, a protected area that has habitat types with natural eutrophic lakes, oligotrophic seawaters, panonic salty marshes, sandy panonic meadows, low altitude meadows, clusters of walnut vegetation and white poplar and cultivated arable land. In 2016 the Romanian Government alongside an NGO developed a plan for its protection and conservation since locals complained that it is not taken care off accordingly, that the area became a dump for people to trow their garbage and that it affects the species (1, 2)
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Overview
Nature-based solution
- Blue infrastructure
- Lakes/ponds
- Deltas
- In-land wetlands, peatlands, swamps, and moors
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Habitat and biodiversity conservation
- Green space creation and/or management
- Cultural heritage and cultural diversity
- Preservation of natural heritage
- Economic development and employment (SDG 8)
- Tourism support
Focus
Management and improved protection of rivers and other blue areas, Protection of natural ecosystems, Improved governance of green or blue areas, Monitoring and maintenance of habitats and/or biodiversity
Project objectives
1. Ensuring biological diversity by preserving natural habitats, wildlife flora and fauna for the local community and for the national interest;
2. Maintaining or restoring in favourable conservation status of natural habitats and species of wild flora and fauna;
3. The protection of natural patrimony assets requiring a special regime of protection for conservation and sustainable use thereof;
4. Initiating actions for the protection and preservation of animal species and vulnerable wild plants
5. Adequate and prudent land-use planning and exploitation, as well as efficient management of natural capital;
6. The reconciliation of tourism activities with the ecological support capacity and with the particularities of existing ecosystems, by promoting ecotourism (1).
Implementation activities
Enforcement of coercive measures for abandonment of waste, poaching and unsupervised wandering of domestic pigs in protected areas. However, there is a need for active cooperation and involvement of protected areas custodians, local councils and site owners. For that matter starting with 2012 a series of seminars were conducted where local schools were involved as well as citizens and repeated cleanings of the area emerged (2)
Biodiversity conservation or restoration-focused activities
Biodiversity conservation:
- Protect and enhance urban habitats
- Preserve and strengthen existing habitats and ecosystems
- Protect species
- Undertake specific measures to protect species
- Means for conservation governance
- Raise public awareness
- Public engagement
Main beneficiaries
- National-level government
- Local government/Municipality
- Researchers/University
- Citizens or community groups
- Young people and children
Governance
Management set-up
- Co-governance with government and non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- National government
- Non-government organisation/civil society
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Dissemination of information and education
- Joint implementation (e.g. tree planting)
- Unknown
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
This NBS was developed by a NGO from Craiova, Fundatia Mereu pentru Europa which developed the plan to conserve and protect the region and it was approved by the Romanian Government (3)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Yes
(This NBS mentions its connections to IUCN, being declared a protected area and being under IUCN's protection (3) It is also part of the Natura 2000 sites network (1))
... a national policy or strategy?
Yes
(This NBS mentions that it is carried out under the Ordinance Government Emergency 57/2007 on the regime of protected natural areas, approved with amendments and completions by Law no. 49/2011, as amended and supplemented. (1))
... a local policy or strategy?
Unknown
Financing
Total cost
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
- EU funds
Type of funding
- Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)
Non-financial contribution
No
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increase in protected green space areas
- Reduced biodiversity loss
- Increased protection of threatened species
Economic impacts
- Unknown
Socio-cultural impacts
- Unknown
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Yes
Presence of indicators used in reporting
Yes
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
Yes
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
1. Ministerul Mediului (2016), PLAN DE MANAGEMENT INTEGRAT AL ARIILOR PROTEJATE CIUPERCENI – DESA, Available at Source link (Accessed 31-8-2020)
2. Adevarul (2015), Cum se distruge rezervaţia ornitologică Ciuperceni-Desa, considerată unul dintre colţurile de rai ale României, Available at Source link (Accessed 31-8-2020)
3. ANANP (2016), Ciuperceni Desa, Available at Source link, (Accessed 31-8-2020)
2. Adevarul (2015), Cum se distruge rezervaţia ornitologică Ciuperceni-Desa, considerată unul dintre colţurile de rai ale României, Available at Source link (Accessed 31-8-2020)
3. ANANP (2016), Ciuperceni Desa, Available at Source link, (Accessed 31-8-2020)
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