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4.3. National Policies, Legislation and Ongoing Activities
Annex 5 provides a table summarising the national protection status of the species in each
Range State. The general picture is one of a high level of legal protection – at least on paper –
in most of the key countries. This suggests that the main challenge is one of implementation
and enforcement of conservation legsilation.
4.4 Site and Habitat Protection and Research
Annex 3a provides a listing of Important Bird Areas known to be of significance for Lesser
White-fronted Goose. Annex 3b is a listing of additional sites, as provided by reviewiers of
the first draft of this Action Plan (in all cases the sites were listed by nationals of the countries
concerned), but this will need further development to ensure that it includes only those sites
that are of real importance for the species’ conservation, rather than sites that are used only
occasionally by vagrants etc.
Annex 6 provides a table, by Range State, of site protection measures. While the
Fennoscandian population is well covered by site protection designations (at least along the
westernmost flyway) this is not the case for the Western main population, which lacks
adequate site protection in many Range States. In some cases there is insufficient information
available for assessing the adequacy of site/habitat protection measures.
4.5. Recent Conservation Measures
Table 5 summarises the mechanisms and institutional arrangements for the Principal Range
States (see section 1.4 for definition), while Annex 7 provides additional information
concerning recent and ongoing conservation measures in each country.
Table 5. Summary of mechanisms and institutional arrangements for conservation of
Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus.
Country
National
Action
Plan for
Lesser
Whitefronted
Goose?
National
Working
Group for
Lesser
Whitefronted
Goose?
National
Monitoring
Programme for
Lesser Whitefronted
Goose?
Monitoring
Programme
in Protected
Areas?
Routines for
Informing the
Responsible
Authorities
Regarding
Nesting
Areas and
Nest Sites?
Azerbaijan No No No No N/A
Bulgaria No No Partial No N/A
Estonia In prep Yes Yes Yes N/A
(2008)
Finland
In prep
(adoption
in 2008)
Yes Yes Yes (Yes)
Germany No Yes Yes Yes N/A
Greece
No (lacks
ratification
since
1999)
No Yes Yes N/A
Hungary No Yes Yes Yes N/A
Iran, Islamic No No No ? N/A
Republic of
Iraq No No No No N/A
Kazakhstan No No No No N/A
Lithuania No No No No N/A
Netherlands ? N/A Yes Yes N/A
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