Azov Black Sea Corridor
Biodiversity Conservation Project – Agricultural Component (2)
Improvement in landscape and habitat
management by:
•restoring biodiversity in degraded and unproductive agricultural areas through natural recovery (e.g., by reducing or eliminating grazing pressure on unplowed steppe);
•improving the management of tree shelter belts to reduce wind erosion and maintain landscape and species diversity;
•creating
no-till buffer strips along watercourses to reduce water erosion and water pollution;
•creating artificial wetlands/reedbeds for wildlife and where
eutrophying solutes can
degrade before discharge to stream courses and the Black Sea.
•reducing
tillage on slopes in excess of 5 degrees;