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LIFE Focus L LIFE for Birds 25 Years of the Birds Directive: the Contribution of LIFE-Nature Projects L P. 1 34AU18_BW_EN 26-11-2004 10:55 Pagina 1 LIFE Focus I LIFE for Birds 25 years of the Birds Directive: the contribution of LIFE-Nature projects I p. 1 Executive summary LIFE working Communicating for threatened bird species / 17 and networking / 37 The Birds Directive •Some statistics • Communicating with the public and LIFE-Nature / 4 on species-oriented projects and stakeholders • Introduction • Saving birds of prey • Networking experience • General objective • Rare geese to be saved • Conclusions of the Birds Directive • Restricted endemic species • What is LIFE-Nature? in Macaronesia Birds after LIFE / 41 • Key objectives of the Birds • Conclusions • Funding the conservation Directive relevant to LIFE-Nature LIFE working of birds and their habitats on habitats for birds / 25 after LIFE What is happening • Some statistics • The use of agri-environmental to birds in the EU? / 7 on habitat-oriented projects schemes for long-term • Threatened bird species • Wetlands conservation • LIFE-Nature as part of the EU • Forests • Long-term management bird conservation strategy • Agricultural habitats of steppe habitat through EU funding A short history of EU financing LIFE initiatives • Conclusions for bird conservation / 12 to manage the SPAs / 32 • The ACE programme • Important Bird Areas General conclusions / 43 • ACNAT and LIFE I and Special Protection Areas • LIFE Nature indicators • LIFE II • How was money spent in SPAs of success in bird conservation • LIFE III management? • How LIFE money • Planning management of SPAs Appendix / 46 has been spent for birds • Sustainable use • List of cited bird species and involvement of locals: scientific names the case of the Comana wetland, Romania • Farming and bird conservation: the case of the Termoncarragh Lake, Ireland • Managing multiple uses of bird sites: the case of Finland’s estuaries and lakes • Conclusions 34AU18_BW_EN 26-11-2004 10:55 Pagina 2 Executive summary Since its inception in 1992 LIFE-Nature has played a key role in the EU’s strat- egy for bird conservation by supporting many conservation actions for Europe’s most threatened bird species. The aim of this report is to give an overview of the results achieved by LIFE-Nature for endangered bird species in the Euro- pean Union and how it has contributed to achieving the objectives of the Birds Directive. Selected success stories will be used to introduce the scientific, eco- logical, socio-economic issues addres- sed and give some insights into the diversity of solutions that have been identified by LIFE project managers. The Birds Directive, which was the first major EU law to address the issue of nature conservation at the conti- nental scale, is still, 25 years after its adoption, the main legal reference for the protection of Europe’s avifauna. While providing protection for all wild birds, the Directive requires Member States to take special conservation measures for the most threatened species and for migratory birds, also through the establishment of an EU wide network of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) where birds and their habitats have to be maintained in a good conservation status. To help achieve the objectives of the Birds Directive, EU Funds dedicated to projects for the conservation of birds and their habitats have been made available since 1984. Initially this was through the ACE and ACNAT programmes, which were succeeded in 1992 by the LIFE programme, al- most half of which is dedicated to nature projects. This is at present the only dedicated financial source for bird conservation at the EU level. Up to 2003 LIFE-Nature has invested 367 million Euros in projects targeting threatened bird species. These are pilot and demonstration projects, aimed primarily at establishing the necessary conditions for the protec- tion of Europe’s most endangered bird species. Photo © Jorma Luhta 34AU18_BW_EN 26-11-2004 10:55 Pagina 3 LIFE Focus I LIFE for Birds 25 years of the Birds Directive: the contribution of LIFE-Nature projects I p. 3 Photo © Conservatoire Rhone-Alpes Photo © Conservatoire From the outset of LIFE-Nature the cies, testing of new techniques, mon- cantly improved their status. Many of European Commission developed a itoring and awareness-raising. This is these success stories are described specific strategy to ensure that the li- the result of the dedicated commit- in this report. mited financial resources were dedi- ment of thousands of people from cated to actions aimed at conserving public administrations at all levels, Last but not least, LIFE-Nature has the most threatened species. This NGOs and private organizations. proven to be a strategically useful involved establishing a restricted list LIFE-Nature places strong emphasis instrument to support capacity build- of the most endangered bird species on the sharing of this experience, ing in many EU countries. It has con- considered as priority for LIFE-Nature including making use of information tributed significantly to the develop- funding. This list includes all globally technologies such as the Internet. It ment of experience and expertise in threatened bird species in the EU. has therefore significantly contributed the evolving nature conservation sec- Action plans, that identify ecological to knowledge and capacity building tor. However, much remains to be needs, threats, conservation status for dealing with major challenges fac- done. The conservation status of ma- and actions to be implemented for the ing bird conservation in the EU. ny bird species is still far from secure different priority bird species at EU and the commitment to their conser- and Member State levels, have been One of the main benefits of LIFE- vation must continue. LIFE-Nature has prepared. Nature has been its capacity to enga- shown that, even with relatively lim- ge interested social groups, stakehol- ited funds, valuable results for bird LIFE-Nature projects have made a ders and local communities, especially conservation can be achieved. It is significant contribution to the estab- in the forging of partnerships between necessary to now build upon this ex- lishment of the SPA network, a cor- them. Many traditional farming, hunt- perience. nerstone of bird protection in the EU. ing, fishing and forestry activities are In order to be eligible for LIFE funding sympathetic to bird conservation. for site conservation actions all areas already qualifying as SPAs have to be LIFE-Nature conservation projects given such legal status. According to have built on these traditional experi- the latest available assessment, for ences with a view to providing the projects financed between 1985 and foundations for the future conserva- 2001, LIFE-Nature has supported con- tion of endangered bird species and servation actions in more than 13 per- their habitats. cent of SPAs, whose network now includes more than 3.600 sites. Where this EU strategy has been ap- plied it has already proven to be highly About 300 LIFE-Nature projects have efficient for many of Europe’s most targeted bird conservation actions, vulnerable bird species. Actions under representing an impressive richness LIFE-Nature, for species such as the of practical experience in a wide range Spanish Imperial Eagle, the Great Bu- of fields: scientific research, habitat stard, waterbird communities, endemic restoration, land acquisition, manage- species from the Canaries and Azo- ment and reintroduction of bird spe- res, to name only a few, have signifi- 34AU18_BW_EN 26-11-2004 10:55 Pagina 4 The Birds Directive and LIFE-Nature LIFE-Nature has been the main Community financial instrument to conserve sites, habitats and species and contributed much to achieve the objectives of the Birds Directive Introduction provisions of the Birds Directive have been complemented, not replaced, by Shakespeare’s Romeo, in a famous those of the Habitats Directive. scene, says to Juliet that the song they hear is that of a lark, “the herald Launched in 1992, LIFE-Nature, the of the morn”, not a nightingale as section of the LIFE programme dedi- Juliet pretends, and so it is time for cated to supporting the implementa- him to go: “I must be gone and live, tion of the Birds and Habitats Direc- or stay and die” (Romeo and Juliet, tives, is the only EU fund primarily Act III, Scene V). dedicated to nature conservation and to the creation of the Natura 2000 pro- Both the skylark and the nightingale tected areas network. Together with are now much rarer than in Shake- ACE and ACNAT, two earlier financial speare’s times. Agricultural intensifi- tools also focused on nature conser- cation in the 20th century has led to a vation, LIFE-Nature has, up to 2003, widespread decline of the skylark all spent more than 558 million Euros on over Europe and has reduced the dis- nature conservation projects. Of this tribution range of the nightingale. They total, 367 million Euros have been are both now included in the list of on April 2, 1979, adopted unanimously spent to help maintain and restore bird species of European conserva- the Birds Directive1, the first major EU endangered bird populations and their tion concern and are examples of a law to protect nature for us and future habitats throughout the EU. general trend affecting nearly 50 per- generations. cent of the wild birds regularly occur- In the following pages the contribu- ring in Europe. By adopting the Birds Directive Mem- tion of LIFE-Nature to the implemen- ber States committed themselves to tation of the Birds Directive is discus- Recognizing that “a large number of protect all wild birds and their habi- sed, as are the most significant results species of wild birds naturally occur- tats, in particular by conserving sites and lessons learnt from demonstra- ring in the European territory are of special ornithological interest (as tion projects in the field of endangered declining in number, very rapidly in well as by adopting legally binding species conservation, the manage- some cases”, Member States of the protection measures).
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