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International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Taiga Bean Goose
Anser fabalis fabalis −an Overview of the draft Plan
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Arto Marjakangas1
Photo: Markus Varesvuo
Contents of this presentation• Background• Project framework• Framework for Action• Implementation
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Flyways of Taiga and Tundra Bean Geese
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Background
A. f. rossicus
Estimated total winter population size of the Taiga Bean Goose in Europe in the 1990s and 2000s
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(Fox & Madsen 1999, Delany & Scott 2006, Fox ym. 2010)
Background
Taiga Bean Goose international action planning project 2013‒2015
• 5th Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP5) to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) in 2012:• Upgading of the North-east Europe/North-west Europe
population of Anser f. fabalis in the AEWA Action Plan (B1 → A3c*, i.e. population numbering around 25 000-100 000 individuals and considered to be at risk as a result of showing significant long-term decline)
• * = hunting may continue on a sustainable use basis within the framework of an international species action plan
• AEWA Technical Committee in 2012 (on Finland’s initiative): International Single Species Action Plan will be prepared for adoption by MOP6 in 2015
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Background
Project framework
• Coordinated by the AEWA Secretariat and Finnish Wildlife Agency
• Compilation of the Plan by an international drafting group (seven members)
• The Plan covers the entire sub-species Anser f. fabalis• Russian Federation, Finland, Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the United Kindom, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Belarus (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China)
• Bean Goose protected in Norway, the United Kindom and the Netherlands; a quarry species in other range states
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Milestones in the production of the Plan• November 2013: stakeholder workshop in Finland
– Problems, threats, knowledge needs, draft Framework for Action
• May−June 2014: 1st draft presented to the workshop participants
• July−October 2014: revision of the draft• November 2014−January 2015: 2nd draft presented for
consultation with the range states• January 2015: 3rd draft to the AEWA Secretariat for
consultation with the AEWA Technical Committee and Standing Committee
• November 2015: adoption of the Plan by MOP6• From 2016 onwards: implementation, coordinated and
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Project framework
Tentative division into four sub-populations (flyway management units)
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Project framework
Goal, Objectives, Results and Activities
• Long-term Goal: to restore and maintain the population at a favourable conservation status (around 165 000−190 000 birds)
• Target population sizes for the next 20 years:– Western: 4 000– Central: 60 000– Eastern 1 & 2: 30 000 birds
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Photo: Asko Kettunen
Framework for Action
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Objectives:Objectives:1.1.Increase survival rate of adultsIncrease survival rate of adults2.2.Increase reproductive ratesIncrease reproductive rates3.3.Stop ongoing loss, fragmentation and Stop ongoing loss, fragmentation and degradation of habitatsdegradation of habitats
Kivineva fen, Lestijärvi(breeding habitat)
Framework for Action
Required results
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Framework for Action
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Framework for Action
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Framework for Action
Excerpts from Activities• Altogether 17 Activities to achieve the required Results• With relevant range states and management units,
priority, timescale and responsible bodies for each Activity
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Objectives Results International/Nationalactivities
Relevant range states
Relevant management units
Priority Timescale Responsibility
1. Increase survival rate of adults
1.1. Legal harvest does not jeopardize an increase of adult survival rates
1.1.1. Develop and implement international adaptive harvest management framework
RU, FI, SE, NO, DK, EE, LV, LT, UKR, BY, PL, D, UK, NL
W, C, E 1&2 Essential ImmediateRolling
Relevant national authorities
1.1.2. Develop and implement an international framework for resolving agricultural conflict which includes the Taiga Bean Goose, including the use of non-lethal methods
SE, D W, C Medium Short Relevant national authoritiesBoard of Agriculture
1.1.3. Raise awareness amongst hunters on the need and ways to reduce crippling
RU, FI, SE, NO, DK, EE, LV, LT, UKR, BY, PL, D, NL
W, C, E 1&2 Medium Short Rolling
Hunting organizations
Framework for Action
Activities relevant to all range states• Develop and implement
international adaptive harvest management (AHM) framework
• Incorporation of scientific method into a management framework
• Learning process:– Stakeholder involvement– Agreed objectives– Management alternatives– Predictive models– Effective monitoring programmes– Which must all be integrated into
an iterative learning cycle
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Framework for Action
• AHM used for the management of the Svalbard population of the Pink-footed Goose A. brachyrhynchus
• Raise awareness amonst hunters on the need and ways to reduce crippling– About 50% of adult Taiga Bean Geese carry embedded
shot pellets
– Danish action plan to reduce wounding by shotgun hunting (1997): the wounding rates of Pink-footed Geese decreased by about 60%
• Raise identification skills and awareness of the status of different goose species amonst hunters– Hunting is targeted more to goose species showing
increasing population trends
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Framework for Action
Estimated level and quality of knowledge concerning the Taiga Bean Goose by management unit
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Population, distribution and hunting bag
Management unitWestern Central Eastern 1 Eastern 2
Population size Breeding Poor Poor N/A N/A
Wintering Medium Medium Poor N/A
Population dynamics
Survival N/A Poor N/A N/A
Productivity N/A Poor N/A N/A
Distribution Breeding areas Medium Medium Poor Poor
Moulting areas Poor Poor N/A N/A
Wintering areas Good Medium Poor Poor
Staging areas Good Medium Poor N/A
Hunting bag Annual bag size N/A Medium N/A N/A
Proportions of sub-species in the bag
N/A Poor N/A N/A
Framework for Action
Implementation of the Action Plan from 2016 onwards
• The Action Plan provides a general framework, details will be agreed upon during the implementation phase
• To be established: AEWA Taiga Bean Goose International Working Group
• To coordinate, guide and supervise the implementation• Composition (23−25 members):
– Representatives from all range states (14)
– Stakeholder representatives (3)• International conservation organization• International hunting organization• International farming organization
– Taiga Bean Goose experts (5−7)
– AEWA Secretariat (1)18.04.23 © Suomen riistakeskus 18
Framework for Action
View over Western Siberian Taiga Bean Goose habitat
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Thank you!