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Implementation 7.1 When implementing this Action Plan, Parties shall, when appropriate, give priority to those populations listed in Column A of Table 1. 7.2 Where, in the case of populations listed in Table 1, more than one population of the same species occurs on the territory of a Party, that Party shall apply conservation measures appropriate to the population or populations that have the poorest conservation status. 7.3 The Agreement secretariat, in coordination with the Technical Committee and with the assistance of experts from Range States, shall coordinate the development of conservation guidelines in accordance with Article IV, paragraph 4, of this Agreement to assist the Parties in the implementation of this Action Plan. The Agreement secretariat shall ensure, where possible, coherence with guidelines approved under other international instruments. These conservation guidelines shall aim at introducing the principle of sustainable use. They shall cover, inter alia: (a) single species action plans; (b) emergency measures; (c) preparation of site inventories and habitat management methods; (d) hunting practices; (e) trade in waterbirds; (f) tourism; (g) reducing crop damage; and (h) a waterbird monitoring protocol. 7.4 The Agreement secretariat, in coordination with the Technical Committee and the Parties, shall prepare a series of international reviews necessary for the implementation of this Action Plan, including: (a) reports on the status and trends of populations; (b) gaps in information from surveys; (c) the networks of sites used by each population, including reviews of the protection status of each site as well as of the management measures taken in each case; (d) pertinent hunting and trade legislation in each country relating to the species listed in Annex 2 to this Agreement; (e) the stage of preparation and implementation of single species action plans; (f) re-establishment projects; and (g) the status of introduced non-native waterbird species and hybrids thereof. 7.5 The Agreement secretariat shall endeavour to ensure that the reviews mentioned in paragraph 7.4 are updated at intervals of not more than three years. 7.6 The Technical Committee shall assess the guidelines and reviews prepared under paragraphs 7.3 and 7.4, and shall formulate draft recommendations and resolutions relating to their development, content and implementation for consideration at sessions of the Meeting of the Parties. 7.7 The Agreement secretariat shall regularly undertake a review of potential mechanisms for providing additional resources (funds and technical assistance) for the implementation of this Action Plan, and shall make a report to each ordinary session of the Meeting of the Parties. 2 As adopted at the Second session of the Meeting of the Parties, which took place from 25-27 September 2002, Bonn, Germany. Table 1 STATUS OF THE POPULATIONS OF MIGRATORY WATERBIRDS3 KEY TO CLASSIFICATION The following key to Table 1 is a basis for implementation of the Action Plan: Column A Category 1: (a) Species which are included in Appendix I to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory species of Wild Animals; (b) Species which are listed as threatened in Threatened Birds of the World (BirdLife International 2000); or (c) Populations, which number less than around 10,000 individuals. Category 2: Populations numbering between around 10,000 and around 25,000 individuals. Category 3: Populations numbering between around 25,000 and around 100,000 individuals and considered to be at risk as a result of: (a) Concentration onto a small number of sites at any stage of their annual cycle; (b) Dependence on a habitat type, which is under severe threat; (c) Showing significant long-term decline; or (d) Showing extreme fluctuations in population size or trend. For species listed in categories 2 and 3 above, see paragraph 2.1.1 of the Action Plan contained in Annex 3 to the Agreement. Column B Category 1: Populations numbering between around 25,000 and around 100,000 individuals and which do not fulfil the conditions in respect of column A, as described above. Category 2: Populations numbering more than around 100,000 individuals and considered to be in need of special attention as a result of: (a) Concentration onto a small number of sites at any stage of their annual cycle; (b) Dependence on a habitat type, which is under severe threat; (c) Showing significant long-term decline; or (d) Showing extreme fluctuations in population size or trend. Column C Category 1: Populations numbering more than around 100,000 individuals which could significantly benefit from international cooperation and which do not fulfil the conditions in respect of either column A or column B, above. 3 As adopted at the Second session of the Meeting of the Parties, which took place from 25-27 September 2002, Bonn, Germany. REVIEW OF TABLE 1 The Table shall be: (a) Reviewed regularly by the Technical Committee in accordance with article VII, paragraph 3(b), of the Agreement; and (b) Amended as necessary by the Meeting of the Parties, in accordance with article VI, paragraph 9(d) of the Agreement, in light of the conclusions of such reviews. DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS USED IN RANGE DESCRIPTIONS North Africa Algeria, Egypt, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia. West Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. Eastern Africa Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania. North-east Africa Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan. Southern Africa Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Central Africa Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe. Sub-Saharan Africa All African states south of the Sahara. Tropical Africa Sub-Saharan Africa excluding Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. Western Palearctic As defined in Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (Cramp & Simmons 1977). North-west Europe Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Western Europe North-west Europe with Portugal and Spain. North-east Europe The northern part of the Russian Federation west of the Urals. Eastern Europe Belarus, the Russian Federation west of the Urals, Ukraine. Central Europe Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, the Russian Federation around the Gulf of Finland and Kaliningrad, Slovakia, Switzerland. North Atlantic Faroes, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the north-west coast of the Russian Federation, Svalbard, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. East Atlantic Atlantic seaboard of Europe and North Africa from northern Nor­way to Morocco. Western Siberia The Russian Federation east of the Urals to the Yenisey River and south to the Kazakhstan border. Central Siberia The Russian Federation from the Yenisey River to the eastern boundary of the Taimyr Peninsula and south to the Altai Mountains. West Mediterranean Algeria, France, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Tunisia. East Mediterranean Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Slovenia, the Syrian Arab Republic, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Yugoslavia. Black Sea Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Romania, the Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine. Caspian Azerbaijan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. South-west Asia Bahrain, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, eastern Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen. Western Asia Western parts of the Russian Federation east of the Urals and the Caspian countries. Central Asia Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Southern Asia Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS bre: breeding win: wintering N: Northern E: Eastern S: Southern W: Western NE: North-eastern NW: North-western SE: South-eastern SW: South-western () Population status unknown. Conservation status estimated. * By way of exception for those populations marked by an asterisk, hunting may continue on a sustainable use basis where hunting of such populations is a long-established cultural practice (see paragraph 2.1.1 of Annex 3 to the Agreement). NOTES