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Action Description Impact
Monitoring and
planning
International census every 10 years.
Established national censuses and monitoring
schemes [27] .
Medium
Site/area
protection
Site/area
management
Species
management
Livelihood,
economic and
other incentives
894 IBAs identified for White stork in Europe,
of which 56% are designated as SPAs or other
protected areas and 7% are not protected.
Protection of wet grassland areas.
Habitat management.
Artificial nest creation.
Reintroduction programmes.
Agro-environmental schemes.
High
High
Medium
Low
Education Education or awareness programmes [e.g. 40] . High
Legislation
Table 4. Conservation
actions in place for
White stork.
Listed under a number of international
conventions and agreements (see ‘Legal
protection and conservation status’ above).
Potentially high
High
in winter, where they are dependent on supplementary
food provisioning [20] .
Conservation effort in a number of countries
is directed towards mitigating the threat from
overhead power lines by using stork-friendly
modifications, as well as erecting artificial nesting
platforms [32, 40, 42, 56] .
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