Ermakov Island

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Ermakov Island is the largest one of the inner deltas in Ukraine which have almost 2500 ha. This island used to have large reedbeeds in the interior but these have suffered from salinization and grazing of domestic livestock and the island is surrounded by dykes.

Geographical

Ermakov Island – with an area of 3,500 ha one of the bigger islands in the Ukrainian Danube Delta – has only recently followed suit. Removal of the dike in August 2009 will make way for the annual spring flooding, which over time will return water and life to the island.

Environment

Tolerant, strong habitats such as wetlands and natural river side arms not only supply environment and shelter for the Danube’s wealthy biodiversity, but also improve the services that ecosystems supply to local people, such as drinking water and validity of ingenious resources like reeds, fish and timbe

Projects

In 2008, WWF assumes that 14.4% of the Lower Danube Green Corridor area has been restored, or is lasting restoration and almost 80% has been determined as sheltered on the national and international standart. “If the total area of 2,236 km2 is fully restored to mirror the restoration work on Tataru and Ermakov Islands, the potential benefits to people and nature on the lower Danube would be even larger”, says Orieta Hulea, Head of Freshwater for the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme and one of the authors of the case study.

References

http://wwf.panda.org/?9382/A-Vision-for-the-Danube-Delta-Ukraine/

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