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Practice: Leveraging investments. Implemented for: Reduction of Nutrient Discharges - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea.

Overview

Name Leveraging investments for Reduction of Nutrient Discharges- under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea

Practice Leveraging investments

Project Reduction of Nutrient Discharges - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrie ...

Beneficiary country: Y

Region: Baltic Sea Central and Eastern Europe Danube-Black Sea Kura-Aras River Basin

Details

Description: Enhancement of the nutrient trapping capacity of the Gemenc and Beda-Karapancsa wetlands situated in the lower Hungarian reaches of the Danube River. This approach is critical to demonstrate in Hungary and the region as a replicable model for the treatment of non-point sources of nutrient pollution using wetlands and floodplains.

Comments: Hungary

Implementation start date: 2006-01-01

Implementation end date: 2011-12-31

Results

Other outcomes: • Protection of the ecosystems of two internationally important Ramsar sites that are nesting places for a number of migratory birds and other species of global importance

Finance

Contacts

Project Manager: Janos Tobias

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