It is especially important to mention the frequent, insufficient planning done by the concerned municipalities. The river banks should be considered as protected areas. To prevent a continuing degradation of the natural riverbank groves, and even to obtain an inversion of the trend, it is necessary to implement a series of strategies aimed at preserving and restoring these areas. We shall summarize them in the following paragraphs. River basins and banks have to be considered as public property and their boundaries have to be marked, especially in the most important areas.
Specific norms have to be worked out for the preservation of the natural river banks groves.
The river bank groves have to be considered as protection areas against floods, as areas which help stabilize the river beds, as protection zones for the agricultural land further from the river and as highly valuable areas from an ecological point of view. Therefore, the management of the natural river bank groves should follow conservation, improvement and extension criteria instead of being considered areas being managed according to forestry or agricultural interests. To remove non-natural matters left by the river during floods. To replace the aerial electrical lines that could represent some risk to birds. To restore old gravel-pits to ponds and small lakes as habitats for aquatic animal and plant communities.