Threatened and/or declining bird species
Action: A1
Title: 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).
Lead: Contracting Parties to which measures apply
What has OSPAR done?
The OSPAR Strategy for the Protection and Conservation of Ecosystems and Biological Diversity 2010-2020 committed the OSPAR Commission to identifying species and habitats in need of protection. The OSPAR List of Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats was developed in 2008 to meet this commitment. 9 bird species were identified to be in need of priority protection based on nominations by Contracting Parties and Observers to the Commission.
OSPAR’s North-East Atlantic Environment Strategy (NEAES) 2030 is the means by which OSPAR’s 16 Contracting Parties will implement the OSPAR Convention until 2030. NEAES 2030 continues its commitment to protecting biodiversity under Strategic Objective 5 which states that OSPAR will “Protect and conserve marine biodiversity, ecosystems and their services to achieve good status of species and habitats, and thereby maintain and strengthen ecosystem resilience”.
Action A1 of the RAP-Bird commits OSPAR Contracting Parties to continue work to implement the measures adopted to protect the 9 bird species on the list.
