Credits

NOTE: All information on this website is based on the AEWA International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Lesser White-fronted Goose (2008 Jones et al.) as well as information provided by members of the International Working Group as well as the main partner organizations.

PICTURE CREDITS

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• Pair of Lesser White-fronted Geese on staging grounds in Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• Lesser White-fronted Geese in flight in Estonia © Seppo Ekelund
• Pair of Lesser White-fronted Geese on staging grounds in Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• Valdak Marshes, Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• Satellite-tagging of Lesser White-fronted Goose, Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• Group picture at the first meeting of the AEWA Lesser White-fronted Goose International Working Group © Marie-Therese Kämper, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat

NEWS

Banner: Lesser White-fronted Geese in flight in Estonia © Seppo Ekelund

SPECIES INFO

Banner: Male and female Lesser White-fronted Goose on staging grounds in Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society

Other pictures:

• Map of flyways © Norwegian Ornithological Society (NOF)
• Lesser White-fronted Geese shot in Kazakhstan 2011 © Toni Eskelin
• Lesser White-fronted and Greater White-fronted Geese in flight in Kazakhstan 2011 © Nicky Petkov
• Grass on salt marshes © Tomas Aarvak, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• Red Fox © Tomas Aarvak, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• Koibagar Lake, Kazakhstan 2010 © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat

RANGE STATES

Banner: Lesser White-fronted Geese amongst other geese in Kazakhstan © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society

Map: Layout: Grid-Arendahl, Original data: Norwegian Ornithological Society, WWF Finland, Swedish Association of Hunting and Wildlife Management

SINGLE SPECIES ACTION PLAN

• International SSAP: Group picture, Syria monitoring mission 2010 © Syrian Society for the Conservation of Wildlife
• National Action Plans: Satellite-tagging of Lesser White-fronted Goose, Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society

WORKING GROUP

Banner: Group picture at the first meeting of the AEWA Lesser White-fronted Goose International Working Group © Marie-Therese Kämper, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat

Meetings:

• Lake Kerkini, Greece © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• 1st Working Group Meeting in Helsinki © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• 1st Working Group Meeting in Helsinki © Marie-Therese Kämper, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• 1st Working Group Meeting in Helsinki © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat

Chair/Coordinator:

• Sergey Dereliev at National Workshop in Azerbaijan © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Nina Mikander © Malte Petersen

ACTIVITIES

Banner: Satellite-tagging of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society

Other pictures:

• Lesser White-fronted Geese in Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• LIFE project sign at Evros, Greece © Morten Ekker, Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management

Projects:

• LIFE+ project team, Lake Kerkini, Greece 2011 © Hellenic Ornithological Society
• Lake Kerkini, Greece 2011 © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Lake Kerkini, Greece 2011 © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Kizil Agach State Nature Reserve, Azerbaijan 2011 © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Donation of telescopes at Kizil Agach State Nature Reserve, Azerbaijan 2012 © Toni Eskelin
• Kuma-Manych Depression © Sonia Rozenfeld, RGG
• Kuma-Manych Depression © Sonia Rozenfeld, RGG
• Koibagar Lake, Kazakhstan © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Koibagar Lake Hunting Management Authority, Kazakhstan © UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Lesser White-fronted Goose monitoring mission, Ukraine 2011 © Vasiliy Kostyushin
• Poisoned geese, Ukraine 2011© Vasiliy Kostyushin

Publications:

• Lesser White-fronted Goose Imre, Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society

Other Activities:

• Lesser White-fronted Geese at captive breeding facility at Nordens Ark, Sweden © Sergey Dereliev, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
• Captive bred Lesser White-fronted Geese before release in Northern Norway © Tomas Aarvak, Norwegian Ornithological Society
• National Lesser White-fronted Goose Workshop in Kazakhstan © ACBK
• National Lesser White-fronted Goose Workshop in Azerbaijan © Nina Mikander, UNEP/AEWA Secretariat

CONTACTS

Banner: Lesser White-fronted Goose monitoring mission in Syria © Toni Eskelin

PARTNERS

Banner: Valdak marshes, Norway © Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society