14 2 5 3 Alpine Nature 2030 Creating ecological connectivity for generations to come 223 Source DANUBEPARKS Protected Areas was established funded within the EU programme for European Territorial Cooperation for South East Europe ETC SEE Within ten years of co operation the partnership has enlarged to 17 partners national parks biosphere reserves nature parks nature reserves protected landscape areas covering the whole Danube stretch including nearly all Danube countries Romania Moldova Bulgaria Serbia Croatia Hungary Slovakia Austria Germany Intense know how trans fer sound strategies and tangible pilot actions in the eld of habitat management river restoration conser vation of agship species and nature tourism contrib ute to strengthen the role of each individual protected area However the amount of land designated as national conservation areas is relatively small and the size of most Danube Protected Areas is generally too small to support self sustaining wildlife populations Therefore actions to restore and preserve habitat connectivity are needed to raise the ef ciency of protected areas as key sites of a Danube Habitat Corridor Figure 25 Danube Protected Areas preserve the most valuable sites and build the backbone for the Danube Habitat Corridor The Danube providing blue and green infrastructure The importance of longitudinal connectivity for rivers is well known and described It impacts a variety of elements including sediment transport ensuring rivers functionality as migration corri dors for aquatic organisms Hydro morphological alterations and hydropower dams in particular on the upper Danube as well as Gabcikovo and the Iron Gate dams interrupt river connectivity and hinder the migration of numerous sh spe cies upstream for spawning and downstream as juveniles Despite considerable efforts under the Water Framework Directive habitat fragmenta tion and degradation result in dramatic decrease in many sh populations The Danube sturgeon a agship species for river continuity illustrates this fatal impact and is close to extinction However large rivers are more than eco corridors for species in the waters of the Danube The variety 1 Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve 2 Lower Prut Nature Reserve 3 Small Wetlands of Braila 4 Rusenski Lom Nature Park 5 Persina Nature Park 6 Iron Gates Natural Park 7 Kopački rit Nature Park 8 Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve 9 Duna Dráva National Park 10 Duna Ipoly National Park 11 Szigetköz Landscape Protection Area Fertö Hánsag National Park 12 Dunajské Luhy Protected Landscape Area 13 Záhorie Protected Landscape Area 14 Donau Auen National Park 15 Wachau Protected Landscape Area 16 Narrow Valley of the Danube in Passau district 17 Donauauwald Neuburg Ingolstadt

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