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 The
implementation of the International Single Species Action
Plan for the Conservation of the Lesser White-fronted Goose
(LWfG) is picking up this autumn with three meetings and
an extensive monitoring mission in Kazakhstan lined up
before Christmas.
The Committee for Captive Breeding, Reintroduction and
Supplementation of Lesser White-fronted Geese in Fennoscandia
(RECAP) came together for its third meeting
at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany on 7-8 October 2010.
Topics
on the agenda included an independent review on Lesser
White-fronted Goose genetics in Fennoscandia as well
as a presentation by the Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust
(WWT) of their feasibility study for a Lesser White-fronted
Goose reintroduction/supplementation programme in Norway.
More information including all the meeting documents
is available on the AEWA
website.
The beginning of October also saw an extensive
Lesser White-fronted Goose monitoring mission taking place
in
the Kostanay region in northern Kazakhstan. Two teams comprised
of LWfG experts from Kazakhstan and Russia monitored
known key sites as well as other potentially suitable sites
in order to get an up-to-date assessment of the current
size of the Western main population.
The monitoring mission was followed up by a national
workshop in Kostanay, Kazakhstan on 12-14 October with
the aim to form a national LWfG Working Group and to start
the process of drafting a National Action Plan for the
species. In addition a work plan focusing on the threat
from hunting was drafted with the aim to be implemented
immediately. The workshop was attended by the AEWA
Technical Officer Sergey Dereliev and the Lesser White-fronted
Goose Coordinator Nina Mikander.
Both, the monitoring mission and workshop were
organized by the Kazakhstan Agency for Applied Ecology,
the Association
for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK)
and the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat in cooperation with the Kazakhstan
Committee of Forestry and Hunting.
Last but not least the AEWA Lesser White-fronted
Goose International Working Group will come together for
its first face-to-face meeting at the Finnish Ministry
of the Environment in Helsinki on the 30th of November
and the 1st of December. More information about the meeting
will also soon be available on the AEWA website.
Further information:
For more information please contact:
Ms.
Nina Mikander, Coordinator for the Lesser White-fronted
Goose
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