Loading ...‘Romania owns 91 protected habitats of EU interest, and almost 110 species of birds that must be included in the Natura 2000 National Network. At the moment, Romania is within the limits the European Union imposes on the sites of community importance (SCI), in compliance with the Habitats Directive and the list of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) for Birds and Wildlife, in accordance with the EU Birds Directive, by 13 percent and 12 percent respectively,’ Smaranda told a seminar on biodiversity and protected areas.
He added that finance for the consolidation of the preservation of the Natura2000 protected areas, is a problem. ‘The Union believes that about 3.9 million euros is needed to have the Natura 2000 Network consolidated at the European level. The Romanian sites are drawn at a 1 to 100,000 scale, now, but we plan to drop the ratio up to 1 to 5,000,’ MMP official stressed.
According to Smaranda, Romania is due to table the next report to the Brussels officials in 2013, and Romania’s National Biology Institute is currently conducting a biodiversity research. Natura 2000 web page posts official data reading that nine bio-geographical regions have been identified in the territory of the 27 EU countries, Romania included.
Among the 27 EU countries, Romania has the biggest bio-geographical diversity, divided in five bio-geographical regions, such as the continental region (the most common, the alpine region (in the countries with mountain areas), the Pannonian region (in Hungary and the neighboring countries), the Black Sea Region (only in Romania and Bulgaria) and the steppic region (in Romania only).
In Romania’s case, the list of the Natura2000 sites proposals numbers 108 Special Protection Areas (SPA) (11.89 percent of the country’s surface) and 272 Sites of Community Importance (SCI) (13.21 percent of the country’s area). The total area of the Natura 2000 proposals represents 17.84 percent of Romania’s surface.
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