By providing important nesting sites for the symbolic bird of Divjake-Karavasta, this island’s surface area is being reduced from year to year due to marine erosion.
A beautiful and small island in the Karavasta Lagoon that provides an important nesting ground for pelicans and their young, this biodiversity cult has been losing its size for decades due to marine erosion caused by climate change.
The only breeding colony of pelicans in Divjake-Karavasta, according to ornithologist Taulant Bino, who has been monitoring, studying, and conserving the colony for decades, states that over the last decade, they have lost about 50 percent of the island’s territory, which also enjoys Monument status for its natural significance.
The island is fragmented, creating small sub-islands, spaces that are subject to the progressive deterioration of that habitat by erosion, says Taulant Bino.
The reduced island today is also subject to annual nature-based solutions rehabilitative interventions, where together with the local authority, it is restored before the start of the nesting period it is restored before the start of the breeding period, to increase and raise it high enough above the water level to allow the pelicans to build their nests without risking flooding and damaging the eggs and young.
