Overview of OSPAR's Regional Action Plan for Marine Birds
Action overview table
OSPAR’s Regional Action Plan on Marine Birds (RAP-Bird) contains 11 actions intended to achieve positive outcomes for marine birds in the OSPAR Maritime Area. Nine of these actions will be implemented as tasks of OSPAR’s North-East Atlantic Environment Strategy 2030 Implementation Plan. Another action will continue to implement the OSPAR Recommendations on Threatened and/or Declining bird species. The remaining action will implement an OSPAR Recommendation for reducing the bycatch of marine birds in the OSPAR Maritime Area, which was adopted as part of the development of this RAP-Bird.
Action | Task / Recommendation | Short-name | Lead countries | Status | Date |
Recommendations 2011/01-07, 2013/12, 2014/16 | Continue to implement Recommendations on Steller’s Eider (2013/12), Ivory gull (2011/02), thick-billed murre (2011/07), lesser black-back gull (fuscus sub-species)(2011/01), black-legged kittiwake (2011/05 amended by 2020/01), Iberian guillemot (2014/16), Roseate tern (2011/06), Balearic shearwater (2011/04) and Macaronesian shearwater (2011/03). | NA | Adopted Implementation reported | 2011, 2013, 2014 2016, 2019 | |
S5.O4.T4 | Enhanced measures for marine birds | UK and NO | Adopted | Jun-24 | |
B2 | Task number TBC | Identification of important sites | TBC | Draft | Mar-24 |
S5.O4.T5 | Flyways scale conservation | UK | Adopted | Jun-24 | |
B4 | Task number TBC | Monitoring and assessment | TBC | Draft | Mar-24 |
C1 | Task number TBC | Marine bird ecology and ecosystem-based management | TBC | Draft | Mar-24 |
Reduction of by-catch | N/A | Adopted | Jun-24 | ||
S5.O4.T6 | Offshore wind mitigation / compensation measures | UK and PT | Adopted | Jun-24 | |
S5.O4.T7 | Reducing the impact of mammalian predators | UK and NL | Adopted | Jun-24 | |
C5 | Task number TBC | Climate Change Adaptation for Marine Birds | TBC | Draft | Mar-24 |
C6 | Task number TBC | Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (”bird flu”) | TBC | Draft | Mar-24 |
