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The International Action Plan for the Lesser White-fronted Goose is finally published by AEWA
The recently adopted ?International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Lesser White-fronted Goose (Western Palearctic Population)? provides a framework for coordinated international action to conserve this threatened species across its full migratory range spanning Europe and parts of Asia. Adopted at the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the plan sets the stage for strengthened cooperative conservation action between 22 Eurasian countries in which this species regularly occurs. Click further for the AEWA announcement? and download the LWfG International Action Plan? More about the release can also be viewed at the web pages of BirdLife International - International action to save Lesser White-fronted Goose?
10 November 2008 by African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, Bonn
Monitoring of autumn staging geese in Kostanay region in 2008
Through a project on Siberian crane most of the Kostanay region was surveyed for geese and cranes in the period 21 September to 5 October 2008. Altogether 347 thousand geese were counted on the 17 sites covered. Exitingly was the total count of 20?832 lesser white-fronted geese. The amount of red-breasted geese was almost similar with 19 587 individuals. The most important lakes for the Lesser White-fronted Goose were Russian Garkol with 6876 ind., Shaptykol (?itovo) with 5390 ind., Shogyrkol with 4847 ind. and Taldykol/Kulakol with 1552 individuals.
0 0 2008 by Sonia Rozenfeld Institute of ecology and evolution, Russian academy of sciences
Critically endangered Lesser White-fronted Goose shot in a protected area in Greece
A serious case of poaching of one of Europe?s most endangered bird species has been confirmed in Greece. An adult male Lesser White-fronted Goose named as M?nnu, individually colour-ring-marked close to its breeding area in northern Norway, was found dead within a strictly protected area at Lake Kerkini, Greece where hunting is prohibited. An autopsy confirmed that the bird was killed with a shotgun. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is protected under the EU Birds Directive. Furthermore, it is also fully protected by national legislation in Greece. The main part of the Fennoscandian population winters in Greece, in the protected areas at Lake Kerkini and in the Evros Delta. Read the full story here?. More coverage can be found here: Lesser White-fronted Goose shot in Greece, BirdLife 2008.04.08, Rare goose killed in Greece, Birdwatch 2008.04.08, Poaching is jeopardizing conservation efforts in Greece, WWF 2008.04.25?, Help us halt illegal hunting - Greece, RSPB 29.06.2006?
16 April 2008 by LWfG EU Life project
Illegal hunting of globally threatened waterbirds in Bulgaria
After the previous two-day prolongation of the hunting season in Bulgaria (February 2nd and 3rd) it was hoped that it was over. Unfortunately, on 12 February it was learnt that at 18 hours on Friday (after the working time) the hunting season was prolonged again - this time till February 17th. This prolongation is a result of the lobbying by a group of MPs (more than 60% of the Bulgarian MPs are hunters). In general, the hunting community insists on prolongation of the hunting season till April 15th. Such unregulated prolongations, of course, are prohibited by the Bulgarian legislation, as well as by the Birds Directive! There are no guarantees that the hunting season will not be further prolonged after February 17th. All this happens against the background of mass poaching and killing of Red-breasted geese, Lesser white-fronted geese, Pygmy Cormorants, Pelicans, and Swans: mass hunting violating the law, according to which hunting must stop an hour after sunset: mass hunting on silhouettes in the fog, when the object cannot be recognized: serious infringements of the hunting norms (three geese and five ducks per hunter per day): mass use of forbidden electric sound devices for luring geese and ducks. Everything that Green Balkans and the nature-conservation community in Bulgaria could do, in order to prevent all these crimes, has already been done. Bulgaria's biggest NGOs developed numerous position papers. The National Veterinary Medicine Service also issued a negative position paper regarding the prolongation of the hunting season related to the risk of avian flue. Maybe the only working solution will be if Bulgaria is brought to the court under the international legislation for infringement upon the Birds Directive. Unfortunately, this is the situation in Bulgaria now (despite the EU membership). Obviously, much more years will be needed to overcome the poaching problem! In the meantime, while undertaking these administrative measures, the Federation of Nature Conservation NGO's will try to guarantee presence of representatives in as many wetlands as possible during the hunting days. This seems to be the best way to prevent hunters from shooting protected species at least! Conservation Director, Ivelin Ivanov, Federation of Nature Conservation NGO's, GREEN BALKANS
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The Lesser White-fronted Goose?have been added to the Cyprus bird list, though all the birds were sh
Three lesser white-fronted geese were found at Akhna Dam over the weekend of the 20th/21st November 2003. Unfortunately, it is believed due to illegal hunting, the numbers were reduced to two, then to one lone bird, which also had disappeared by February 2004. The LWfG was bird species number 370 for Cyprus. More information and a photo can be found at http://www.birdlifecyprus.org/Birdings.htm?
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