1000 words comment on the Wildlife Comeback Report.

An interesting article for the students in ecology:

http://www.contributors.ro/advocacy-public-affairs/1000-words-comment-on-the-wildlife-comeback-report/

This article offers a very useful perspective on our environmental realities starting from a recent report on species diversity, and suggests that in Romania the management of biodiversity should be approached differently than in the West, in order to preserve the much richer species and ecosystem diversity. However, unless a payments system for ecosystem services from West to the East would be enforced I see no incentives for preserving biodiversity here more or in a different style than in the West. This is just a special case of the global problem, but with perhaps more chances to be solved. May be the author or its peers are in the position to lobby for an Ecosystem Services Market Directive, one regulating the trans-boundary aspects and providing the framework for the transfer of money for ecosystem services between regions of development within the same country. Without a top-down approach, without a directive linking biodiversity management with water framework directive, EIA, SEA and others like these by the money value of ecosystem services any hope that at national level in Romania will arise institutions for an environmental management more effective than in the West is wishful thinking.

The Wildlife Comeback Report can be downloaded pushing on the photo below.