Technical Series No. 35 and Popular Series No. 2 - two new AEWA publications now available!

Bonn, 11 November 2009 - The AEWA Secretariat is pleased to announce the release of its Technical Series No. 35 and its Popular Series No. 2. Both publications can be downloaded from the AEWA website and hardcopies of the publications are now available from the Secretariat.

Popular Series No. 2: Phasing out the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands: Experiences made and lessons learned by AEWA Range States - According to Paragraph 4.1.4. of the AEWA Action Plan any Party to AEWA "shall endeavour to phase out the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands as soon as possible and in accordance with self-imposed and published timetables." An international review on the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands, undertaken in 2007 by the AEWA Secretariat, has shown that the problem is still far from solved in the majority of the AEWA Range States. However, very good progress has been made in individual countries having introduced a legal ban on the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands. In order to be able to benefit from the experiences made in a number of countries and to enable other AEWA Parties and Range States to learn from the countries, which have already gone through the process of phasing out the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands, the AEWA Secretariat distributed a series of questionnaires on this issue among governmental focal points and hunting organisations. The findings of this survey have been summarized in this new publication, which is also available in French. Popular Series No. 2 can be downloaded from the AEWA website here.

 

Technical Series No. 35: International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia - This International Single Species Action Plan was prepared by the International Spoonbill Working Group with support of Eurosite, Syndicat Mixte Baie de Somme, Vereniging Natuurmonumenten, Wetlands International and Euronatur. It was adopted by the 4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties in September 2008 in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

This Action Plan addresses all the stakeholders in the relevant Range States for the different Eurasian Spoonbill populations, providing them with constructive guidance for carrying out conservation measures to protect this species. The publication can be downloaded from the AEWA website here.