POSSIBILITIES TO ENHANCE THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE DANUBE DELTA'S NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS

The Danube Delta is a unique assembly of a wide range of ecosystems hosting a tremendous biodiversity and providing important ecological functions. The new paradigm in nature conservation promoted since the Nairobi Conference of the Parties of the Convention on the Conservation of the Biological Diversity focus on the need to reach appropriate combinations of use and preservation measures by involving local people, linked with strong economic, spiritual relations to their environment. Combining data available for natural ecosystems with information regarding other similar sites we established a set of objectives both on long and short run and measures needed to reach them and the responsibilities of different stakeholders.