BirdsRussia Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Institute of Geography of Far-eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science Working Group on Shorebirds of Northern Eurasia Report for the EAAFP, Australian Government and CMS ***** The first approach to assessment of hunting pressure on shorebirds in selected areas of the Kamchatka Peninsula, with special focus on the Far-Eastern Curlew Moscow – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 2019 Prepared by Konstantin B. Klokov, Saint-Petersburg State University,
[email protected] Yuri N. Gerasimov, Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Institute of Geography FED RAS/BirdsRussia Kamchatka Branch,
[email protected], Evgeny E. Syroechkovskiy Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russian Federation /Birds Russia, Russia.
[email protected] With contribution from: Sergey Kharitonov, Russian Bird Ringing Centre IPEE RAN Rus Acad Sci. Anton Ivanov, Working Group on Shorebirds on Northern Eurasia Dmitriy Dorofeev, All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Conservation Photos by authors of the report as well as local residents – hunters, whose names we promise not to mention for the reasons of confidentiality. 2 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Project goal and objectives ................................................................................................................... 5 Materials and methods ........................................................................................................................