1 / 19

Capacity Building Workshop on Biodiversity Indicators 4-6 November 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Capacity Building Workshop on Biodiversity Indicators 4-6 November 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia National experience with biodiversity indicators in the Republic of Croatia Gordana Kolačko Croatian Environment Agency. Background. Croatia EEA cooperating country since 2004

ziarre
Download Presentation

Capacity Building Workshop on Biodiversity Indicators 4-6 November 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Capacity Building Workshop on BiodiversityIndicators 4-6 November 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia National experience with biodiversityindicators in the Republic of Croatia Gordana Kolačko CroatianEnvironmentAgency

  2. Background Croatia • EEA cooperatingcountrysince 2004 • EU/EEA member country on 1 July 2013 Participationin EIONET helpfullin: • understandingthescopeandcontentof future reportingobligation • processofdesigningappropriateinformationandreportingsystem Example: DevelopmentofCroatian National list ofindicators 2009, revision 2011

  3. Institutionalframework Responsiblegovernmentalinstitution for biodiversity: • MinistryofEnvironmnetaland Nature Protection (MENP) • State Institute for Nature Protection (SINP) • Stakeholders: otherministriesandpublicinstitutions, NGOs, scientificinstitutions • EEA NFP – CroatianEnvironmentAgency (CEA) establishedin June 2002 by Governmentalregulation, as a publicinstitution

  4. CEA • EnvironmentalProtection Act (O.G. 80/2013) • The Agency - cooperate with the EEA and report in accordance with the requirements of the EIONET. • The activities of the Agency include: • Obligation for preparation of the state ofenvironment reportevery 4 years based on theset of environmental indicators • Developing the National indicator liston the basis of special regulations and international treaties, taking into account specific requirements for the environmental protection. NLI regularly updated and published at the website of the CEA.

  5. EEA reporting Cooperation with EEA: CEA to participate in EIONET since 2004 CEA coordinates reporting under EEA Priority Data Flows/ CDDA (Common Database on Designated Areas) and uploads database on CDR Croatia. Database is provided by SINP and Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection. Major developments Priority Data Flow score 2005 → 17% Priority Data Flow score 2007 → 71% Priority Data Flow score 2009 → 78% Priority Data Flow score 2011 → 89% Priority Data Flow score 2012 → 92%(+3)

  6. CDDA Report: Eionetpriority data flows, May 2012–April 2013 (EEA) Data flow analysis for Croatia • Progress2012–2013 CDDA1:Designated areas • Delivery on time: 437 sites reported. • All siteshave information on IUCN category, size,coordinates and site designation. • Boundaries havebeen reported for all sites.

  7. EEA reporting

  8. EEA reporting SOER - State ofEnvironmentReport(Croatia) http://soer2010.ew.eea.europa.eu/ • PartC –country-levelanalysis • A partofthisdocumentwasNature protection and biodiversity • Uploadto SOER portal

  9. EEA reporting Cooperation with EEA: BENEFITS: Improved contacts with ETCs andindependent experts Improved national expert's network Improved regional cooperation Improved national SOER

  10. National reporting Indicator based: Annual publication: Environment in your pocket (everyyear) State of Environment Report (every 4 years) Other publication

  11. National List of Indicators IncooperationwiththecompetentauthoritiesoftheCroatiangovernmentandproffessionalandscientificinstitutions CEA hasrevisedthedraftofthe NLI, 2009. NLI - integratedtool for implementingthemonitoringandenvironmentalreporting • 245 datasheets for 27 topics - 19 biodiversity indicators

  12. National List of Indicators • The National list of indicators includes prescriptions on the time dynamics of data collection, format, source and mode of data flow. • The proposal of the list was coordinated with the EEA in order to align it with the SEBI set of indicators. • The methodology to develop biodiversity indicators in Croatia was also developed.

  13. National List of Indicators National biodiversity indicators in the Republic of Croatia • ZPV 01 Protected areas under the Nature Protection Act • BR 01 Areas in the ecological network of the Republic of Croatia • BR 02 Areas of interest for the EU • BR 03 Representation of certain class of habitat types • BR 04 Representation of threatened and rare habitat types in Croatia • BR 05 Representation of habitat types of interest to the EU • BR 06 State of conservation of endangered wild species from the Croatian Red List • BR 07 Abundance and distribution of the selected species • BR 08 Population trends of birds in agricultural areas • BR 09 Invasive alien species • BR 10 Conservation of genetic resources in agriculture

  14. National List of Indicators • BR 11 Share of agricultural area in the areas of interest for the EU • BR 12 Agricultural areas of high natural value • BR 13 Freshwater fishponds of high natural value • BR 14 Dead trees in the forests • BR 15 Fragmentation of natural and seminatural areas • BR 16 Marine Protected Areas • BR 17 Funding of biodiversity protection and conservation • BR 18 Public awareness about nature conservation

  15. Progress on activities • ContactandinformationexchangewithCroatian BIP participant • Preparedfactsheet SEBI 07 National DesignatedProtectedAreas - State EnvironmentReport for period 2008-2012 • Meetengwith participant from SINP on factsheets • Established Web Map Service/WMS with SINP

  16. SEBI 007 SEBI 007 Nationally designated protected areas Figure 1: Growth of nationally designated areas in the Republic of Croatia

  17. SEBI 007 SEBI 007 Nationally designated protected areas Figure 2. Geographic coverage of nationally designated areas in the Republic of Croatia

  18. National indicators

  19. Thanks for your attention! e-mail: gordana.kolacko@azo.hr www.azo.hr

More Related