Lesser White-fronted Goose project amongst the Best LIFE Nature Projects in 2009!
The Finnish LIFE Nature project to protect the Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus is one of 23 Best LIFE Nature Projects being featured in a new European Commission publication highlighting the 2009 awards. Read the full story here (AEWA)?
0 November 2010 by
Supplementation of the wild LWfG population in Norway
On August 26, four LWfG goslings bred at the Swedish farm Nordens Ark were released at the Valdak Marshes, Finnmark County, Norway. The parents being wild caught LWfGs from the Polar Urals in Russia. All four goslings were equipped with black neck bands with white inscription (A09, A16, A17 & A18), and two of them were equipped with satellite transmitters - one of backpack type and one was attached to the neck band. The goslings joined the wild flock very soon, and we could follow them by satellites throughout the staging period in Porsanger, from where they left on September 14. On September 15. they were located in the core breeding area, and on September 20. they continued southwards (last signal from the neck band transmitter came from the breeding area). On 23-25 September, the gosling with the backpack transmitter was located to the north of Vaasa in Finland, but to our surprise it then went to Southern Sweden where it still is. The bird has been seen by Swedish bird watchers, and it was alone. So now we are eager waiting for news/sightings from Hungary or Greece. There are still two goslings unaccounted for!
0 November 2010 by Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management & Birdlife Norway
International Action Plan in Russian
The single species action plan for the Lesser White-fronted Goose has been made available also in Russian?
0 0 2010 by
Busy autumn for the Lesser White-fronted Goose!
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. Read more here (AEWA)?
0 October 2010 by
Steps to protect globally threatened goose species taken in South-West Russia
An interregional meeting on the Optimization of the Use of Waterfowl at the Kumo-Manych stopover site in Kalmykia Republic, Stavropol Krai and Rostov Oblast took place on 15 June 2010 in Kalmykia. ?As a result of the discussions on the need to regulate the hunting of waterbirds at Kumo-Manych as an urgent measure to protect threatened species, the administration of Rostov Oblast decided to close spring hunting of waterfowl for the next five years. Spring hunting within the Kumo-Manych Depression area in the Republic of Kalmykia has been closed since 2009 and a further commitment was made at the meeting not to re-open spring hunting. The meeting also strongly recommended that the administration of Rostov Oblast increase the extent of the hunting ban within the buffer zone of the Biosphere State Reserve ?Rostovsky?. Read more here (AEWA) or download the a short report from the meeting?
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