In the framework of the UNEP/GEF project “Support to Eligible Parties to Produce the Sixth National Report to the CBD“, Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia as the administrative authority for the implementation of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and Serbian Environmental Protection Agency as the executive agency of this project in Serbia have prepared the 6th National report on the implementation of UNCBD which shows the assessment of progress in the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets using more than 50 indicators that were adjusted or developed for this purpose and presented here.
Biodiversity Indicators
Protection of Biodiversity
1.1 Stopping the trend of vulnerability and loss of biodiversity
- 1.1.1 Main pollutants concentration and deposition trend
- 1.1.2 Biomonitoring of air pollution
- 1.1.3 Air quality in the selected protected areas
- 1.1.4 Aquatic macrophytes water pollution bio-monitoring
- 1.1.5 Red algae population trend
- 1.1.6 Invasive insect species trend
- 1.1.7 Monitoring and gradation of gypsy moth (Limantria dispar) in the forests of Serbia
- 1.1.8 Trend of concentration of allergenic pollen of ambrosia (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in Serbia
- 1.1.9 The trend of the areas where the ambrosia has been treated
- 1.1.10 Trend of mosquito populations infected with Western Nile Virus in Serbia
- 1.1.11 Trend of the mosquito population infected with Western Nile Virus in Belgrade
- 1.1.12 Trend of population of infected ticks causing Lyme disease
- 1.1.13 Trend of Morbus Lyme patients in Serbia
- 1.1.14 Diversity of species – butterfly population trend
- 1.1.15 Species diversity – birds population trend
- 1.1.16 Trend of Griffon vulture population restored
- 1.1.17 Trend in the number of carnivorous mammal population
- 1.1.18 Changes of floristically composition of hilly grassland communities on Stara Planina Mt
- 1.1.19 Progress in Contaminated sites management
1.2 Preservation of biological diversity at the genetic, species and ecosystem level
1.3 Monitoring the impact of climate change on biodiversity and the impact of biodiversity on mitigating the effects of climate change
- 1.3.1 Dead wood and climate changes
- 1.3.2 Forest damages
- 1.3.3 Forest health conditions
- 1.3.4 Forest fires
- 1.3.5 Number of fungal species in selected forest habitats
- 1.3.6 Air pollution and forest defoliation in selected protected areas
- 1.3.7 Flowering of Prunus laurocerasus related to Climate Changes
- 1.3.8 Climate Changes and flowering phenology of winter aconite
- 1.3.9 Climate Changes and Black-Headed Bunting areal and population size changes
- 1.3.10 Wintering aquatic-habitat birds population trends
1.4 Establishment of an integral national information system for biodiversity with a database (INISB)
1.5 Combating illegal killing, trapping and trade of wild species
Improvement of the system of protected areas and ecological networks
2.1 Increasing the protected areas surface and management effectiveness
- 2.1.1 Trend of protected areas changes
- 2.1.2 CORINE Land Cover habitat changes in Protected Area in Serbia
- 2.1.3 Monitoring and improving the status of protected areas
- 2.1.4 Change in state budget allocations for Protected Areas
- 2.1.5 Change in the amount of funds from the revenues for protected areas use
- 2.1.6 Sources of financing of national parks in Serbia
- 2.1.7 Change in the amount of funds invested in the protected areas in Autonomous province of Vojvodina
- 2.1.8 Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Serbia
- 2.1.9 Habitat changes in selected protected areas
2.2 Establishment and development of the Ecological network of the Republic of Serbia
2.3 Protection and evaluation of landscape types
Sustainable use of natural resources
3.1 Developing mechanisms for sustainable use and equitable distribution of biodiversity components
- 3.1.1 Forest management plans
- 3.1.2 Increment and wood cutting
- 3.1.3 Timber consumption and sale
- 3.1.4 Collection of wild flora and fauna
- 3.1.5 Export of wild flora and fauna
- 3.1.6 Species diversity – Macromycetes (Macrofungi) species number trend
- 3.1.7 Fresh water fishing
- 3.1.8 Fragmentation of the river habitats
- 3.1.9 Small hydro power plants
- 3.1.10 Renewable energy sources
- 3.1.11 Population dynamics of the main hunting species
- 3.1.12 The intensity of tourism in the mountains
- 3.1.13 Domestic material consumption and resource productivity
- 3.1.14 Mapping of High Nature Value (HNV) Farmland in Serbia
- 3.1.15 Organic agriculture
- Kopaonik – Srpska planina