532
17.6 Site Restoration in the Danube Delta
In the last decades of the twentieth century, the Danube Delta has suffered due to
anthropogenic interventions that led to dramatic changes in some areas. These interventions were the impoundment of large areas for intensive agricultural, fishery and
forestry use, which led to dramatic alterations and changes in water balance. These
interventions also affected natural processes, the ecological balance and the specific
ecological functions of wetlands and led to alteration or even additional specific loss
of wetland habitats. When work was halted in 1990, the impounded areas occupied
an area of 97,408 ha (22% of the total area of 482,592 ha). Studies for the
Fig. 17.11 Danube delta biosphere reserve zoning: protected zones; buffer zones: deltaic and
marine; the economic zones
S. Niculescu et al.
17.6 Site Restoration in the Danube Delta
In the last decades of the twentieth century, the Danube Delta has suffered due to
anthropogenic interventions that led to dramatic changes in some areas. These interventions were the impoundment of large areas for intensive agricultural, fishery and
forestry use, which led to dramatic alterations and changes in water balance. These
interventions also affected natural processes, the ecological balance and the specific
ecological functions of wetlands and led to alteration or even additional specific loss
of wetland habitats. When work was halted in 1990, the impounded areas occupied
an area of 97,408 ha (22% of the total area of 482,592 ha). Studies for the
Fig. 17.11 Danube delta biosphere reserve zoning: protected zones; buffer zones: deltaic and
marine; the economic zones
S. Niculescu et al.