Overview of Nature Protection Progress in Kosovo
This paper presents an overview of progress in the area of nature conservation in the last decade in Kosovo. Two very important laws were promulgated in 2012 about two national parks: Bjeshket e Nemuna and Sharri National park. With this expansion, the protected area network that in 2003 was about 4...
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| description | This paper presents an overview of progress in the area of nature conservation in the last decade in Kosovo. Two very important laws were promulgated in 2012 about two national parks: Bjeshket e Nemuna and Sharri National park. With this expansion, the protected area network that in 2003 was about 4.36 % of the territory was increased to 10.9%, reaching a satisfactory degree of protected areas and increasing the number of protected areas in a total of 116. While in terms of conservation of protected areas a significant progress has been achieved, stagnation is seen in the conservation of rare and threatened species of flora and fauna. Although envisaged by legislation, the Red List of Kosovo of rare and threatened species has not been adopted yet. Also, there is a small progress in the implementation of practical conservation and management measures contained in the legislation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a3eda0fb1974aafac19071e774e47d82022-12-22T02:05:39ZengInternational Association for Landscape Ecology, Chapter GermanyLandscape Online1865-15422015-12-014511010.3097/LO.20154535Overview of Nature Protection Progress in KosovoZeqir Veselaj0Behxhet Mustafa1Faculty of Education, University of Prishtina Hasan Prishtina, Str. Agim Ramadani n.n., Prishtina, 10000, SerbiaFaculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Prishtina Hasan Prishtina, Str. Mother Teresa n.n., Prishtina, 10000, SerbiThis paper presents an overview of progress in the area of nature conservation in the last decade in Kosovo. Two very important laws were promulgated in 2012 about two national parks: Bjeshket e Nemuna and Sharri National park. With this expansion, the protected area network that in 2003 was about 4.36 % of the territory was increased to 10.9%, reaching a satisfactory degree of protected areas and increasing the number of protected areas in a total of 116. While in terms of conservation of protected areas a significant progress has been achieved, stagnation is seen in the conservation of rare and threatened species of flora and fauna. Although envisaged by legislation, the Red List of Kosovo of rare and threatened species has not been adopted yet. Also, there is a small progress in the implementation of practical conservation and management measures contained in the legislation.https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/35biodiversityconservationprotected areaslegislationenvironment |
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