TY  - CONF
AU  - Stanković, Vera
AU  - Pantović, Jovana
AU  - Marković, Aleksandra
AU  - Batrićević, Ana
PY  - 2023
UR  - https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/7035
AB  - The importance that small water bodies, most often called ponds, have in preserving unique biodiversity and providing unique ecosystem services is well known in the scientific world. Many ponds are present on the territory of Romania, which, due to weak rural development in the last century, remained preserved. Today, many of these ponds are protected at the national level, as part of larger territories as protected areas, and at the international level, applying the laws of the European Union. However, a more efficient implementation of by-laws is needed to ensure the
complete protection of these fragile aquatic habitats and replace the incomplete legal protection of EU directives related to habitats. Awareness raising and education about the importance of ponds is needed among the immediate users of the areas where these small waters are located.
Furthermore, it is necessary to regulate and stimulate the collaboration of relevant stakeholders. Recommendations for improving the legal and practical protection of ponds at the landscape level are given.
PB  - Tulcea, Romania : “Danube Delta” National Institute for Research and Development
C3  - Deltas and Wetlands, The 30th Scientific Symposium, 05-09 June 2023, Tulcea – Romania (Book of Abstracts)
T1  - Ponds in Romania - need and recommendations for improvement of legal protection
VL  - 9
SP  - 21
EP  - 21
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_cer_7035
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Stanković, V., Pantović, J., Marković, A.,& Batrićević, A.. (2023). Ponds in Romania - need and recommendations for improvement of legal protection. in Deltas and Wetlands, The 30th Scientific Symposium, 05-09 June 2023, Tulcea – Romania (Book of Abstracts)
Tulcea, Romania : “Danube Delta” National Institute for Research and Development., 9, 21-21.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_cer_7035

Stanković V, Pantović J, Marković A, Batrićević A. Ponds in Romania - need and recommendations for improvement of legal protection. in Deltas and Wetlands, The 30th Scientific Symposium, 05-09 June 2023, Tulcea – Romania (Book of Abstracts). 2023;9:21-21.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_cer_7035 .

Stanković, Vera, Pantović, Jovana, Marković, Aleksandra, Batrićević, Ana, "Ponds in Romania - need and recommendations for improvement of legal protection" in Deltas and Wetlands, The 30th Scientific Symposium, 05-09 June 2023, Tulcea – Romania (Book of Abstracts), 9 (2023):21-21,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_cer_7035 .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Stanković, Vera
AU  - Marković, Aleksandra
AU  - Pantović, Jovana
AU  - Mesaroš, Gabor
AU  - Batrićević, Ana
PY  - 2023
UR  - https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/6905
AB  - Ponds, the most numerous freshwater habitats globally, are becoming increasingly recognized as being important for rare, endemic and endangered species, owing to the high levels of biodiversity they support and their role in ecosystem services. However, they remain largely overlooked and widely excluded from policies that might protect them. Even though their size and permanence are highly important for their legal protection, these two characteristics are not precisely and universally defined in theory and in international legal documents. International legislative frameworks do not seem to provide global, comprehensive, or detailed protection of ponds as significant and widespread habitats. On the contrary, they safeguard only fragmentary small water bodies – either by protecting certain types or only those that are parts of larger protected areas. Also, pondscapes are not specifically recognized as forms in need of legal protection. In this paper, the complexity of the legal protection of ponds is presented, followed by recommendations. These should be transformed into legal norms, and given their number and complexity be presented within a single, unique convention that would specifically address the protection of ponds globally. This type of protection would be the most effective legal tool.
PB  - Wiley
T2  - Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
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VL  - 33
IS  - 11
SP  - 1369
EP  - 1386
DO  - 10.1002/aqc.4008
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Stanković, V., Marković, A., Pantović, J., Mesaroš, G.,& Batrićević, A.. (2023). The need for unique international legal protection of pond habitats. in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Wiley., 33(11), 1369-1386.
https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4008

Stanković V, Marković A, Pantović J, Mesaroš G, Batrićević A. The need for unique international legal protection of pond habitats. in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 2023;33(11):1369-1386.
doi:10.1002/aqc.4008 .

Stanković, Vera, Marković, Aleksandra, Pantović, Jovana, Mesaroš, Gabor, Batrićević, Ana, "The need for unique international legal protection of pond habitats" in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 33, no. 11 (2023):1369-1386,
https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4008 . .