Project “Joint Monitoring for Environmental Protection in BSB countries” is aimed at solving common problems of nature parks and protected areas in the Black Sea Basin (BSB). The overall project objective is to contribute to increasing the level of availability of cross-border compatible environmental monitoring data and information in nature parks and protected areas in BSB.
Throughout the implementation project has reached the following results

• Developed Smart Platform and contributed to raising the level of availability of cross-border compatible data and information for environmental monitoring in nature parks and protected areas covered by the project.
• Provided up-to-date information on the state of natural habitats and the presence of invasive species in the nature parks covered by the project through the use of smart technologies and conducting joint monitoring.
• Improved long-term cross-border collaboration, information and research capacity for addressing ecosystem transformation and biodiversity monitoring through establishment of a Cross-border Center for joint environmental monitoring in BSB countries.
• Cross-border Center for Joint environmental monitoring was established and supports joint eco monitoring, data and information for nature parks and protected areas.
• Online monitoring system (OMS) for environmental data supports integration of the measurement data and serves as information platform.
• Smart platform for collecting, processing and analyzing cross-border compatible environmental data in BSB. Technology for environment observation with drones and remote river water quality, dust air measurement and monitoring developed, Web-based cloud service for automatic data collection from wireless sensor networks and Web-based cloud service for video content established.
• Methodology for joint monitoring of natural habitats and invasive species developed. The methodology covers compatible data, up-to-date information on the location and size of damaged areas and types of pressure, the assessment of potential sources and forms of threats.
• Joint monitoring on the state of the natural habitats and invasive species in the territories covered by the project conducted.
• Report on assessed existing and potential sources and forms of pressure on key areas within protected territories of the Black Sea Basin elaborated.
• List of suggested preventive measures for the protection of natural habitats and combating invasive species elaborated.
• Capacity of local stakeholders, national park staff, ministries, GIS and environmental experts improved through regular eco monitoring trainings.

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