Site: Obedska Bara

Designation date: 28-03-1977

Coordinates: 44°44'N 020°00'E

Elevation:

Area: 17,501 ha

Location: Obedska Bara is located about 50 km southeast of the city of Beograd (Belgrade), between the villages of Obrez and Kupinovo, in the province of Vojvodina, Serbia in northeast Yugoslavia.

Criteria: no information available

Importance: The site is important for threatened breeding bird species, including egrets Egretta garzetta (400 pairs), Nycticorax nycticorax (300 pairs), Ixobrychus minutus, and Botaurus stellaris, storks Ciconia nigra and C. ciconia, the spoonbill Platalea leucorodia, eagles Haliaeetus albicilla, Aquila pomarina and A. heliaca, crakes Porzana parva and P. porzana, and the woodpecker Dendrocopos medius. Furthermore, the site includes rare insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. Rare and relict water lilies are also found.

Wetland Types: W ,Ts ,Tp ,O ,M (dominant types shown in bold)

The site is a seasonally inundated area of the River Sava floodplain, with marshes, ponds, wet meadows, the Obedska Bara oxbow lake, and Salix/Populus and Quercus woodland.

Biological/Ecological notes: Obedska Bara has a great variety of herbal communities, such as coastal, shallow water, surface water, swamp, and wet forest communities, with all types of vegetation.

Hydrological/Physical notes: The oxbow lake is 13.5 km long, with a maximum width of 0.75 km. The whole area of Obedska Bara proper includes the oxbow lake, the inner area bordered by the lake and the immediate outer belt; this measures about 2,400 ha.

Human Uses: There is no information about the ownership of the site and its surroundings. Obedska Bara has great economic, cultural, scientific and recreational values.

Conservation Measures: The Obedska Bara Nature Reserve is a strict nature reserve in part, and partly a scientific research reserve. An area of particular natural beauty has the function of an outer protective zone. A management plan is being prepared (2002). To counter siltation and eutrophication , depressions were cleaned up to enable better water flow, and trees and bushes were extracted from the wet meadows. The water regime has been improved by increasing the mean waterlevel by 0.5 m during the dry period.

Adverse Factors: Regulation of the River Sava has adversely affected fish stocks. Obedska Bara has been subject to rapid siltation and eutrophication, resulting in the expansion of Phragmites beds and Salix scrub, to the virtual exclusion of open water area in the lake.

Site Management: No information available.

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Based on the Ramsar site information provided. This site entry was slightly revised on 13 January 2003, based on information contained in the 2002 Ramsar National Report.