Identifying Riparian Areas of Free Flowing Rivers for Legal Protection: Model Region Mongolia
| Autor: | Sainbuyan Bayarsaikhan, Batjargal Zamba, Chimeddorj Buyanaa, Chimed-Ochir Bazarsad, Purevdorj Surenkhorloo, Sanjmyatav Dolgorjav, Michael Heiner |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences legal protection riverine wetlands Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 Drainage basin Wildlife lcsh:Renewable energy sources Wetland Management Monitoring Policy and Law 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences mitigation Ecoregion riparian areas lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Riparian zone lcsh:GE1-350 geography geography.geographical_feature_category Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Integrated water resources management Habitat conservation Building and Construction Mongolia Water resources lcsh:TD194-195 Water resource management wetland delineation |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 2 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 551, p 551 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13020551 |
| Popis: | Mongolia has globally significant biodiversity and pastoral traditions, and scarce water resources on which wildlife and people depend. Rapid growth of the mining sector is a threat to water resources and specifically river riparian zones. Mongolia has passed progressive laws for water and habitat conservation, including establishment of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and river basin governance organizations, and laws protecting the river riparian zone, but implementation has been hindered by limited technical capacity and data-scarcity, specifically because consistent, accurate maps of the riparian zone did not exist. To address this gap, WWF-Mongolia and partners developed a national delineation of riparian areas based on a spatial model, then validated this with local river basin authorities and provincial governments to designate legal protection zones. As a result, 8.2 million hectares of water protection zones including riparian areas have been legally protected from mining and industrial development in the globally significant landscapes and riverscapes of the Amur, Yenisey, and Ob Rivers headwaters, the Altai Sayan ecoregion, and the Gobi-Steppe ecosystem. These findings demonstrate a pathway for implementing broad-scale, durable legal protection of riverine wetlands through a data-driven, participatory process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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