EURAPMON FINAL CONFERENCE
The EURAPMON Final Conference will take place on 9-11 March 2015. For detailed information please go to this website.
Summary
The wider aim of the programme is to strengthen the contribution of research and monitoring for and with raptors in Europe to delivery of biodiversity, environmental and human health benefits, including maintenance and recovery of raptor populations and their habitats, and reduced chemicals threats to ecosystem and human health. The immediate objectives are
(1) to establish a sustainable and resource-efficient Europe-wide network for monitoring for and with raptors, linked to international networks;
(2) to establish consensus on Europe-wide priorities for monitoring for and with raptors, based on comprehensive inventory of existing monitoring, and of needs of key users (policy makers, risk assessors, environmental managers);
(3) to spread best practices and build capacities in Europe for harmonized monitoring for and with raptors;
(4) to build a web-based database, populated with interoperable data on European raptor population trends and (contaminant and other) pressures on raptors in Europe, and to produce European- and EU- scale analytical outputs which meet priority needs of users. Activities, workplan and budget are carefully tailored to achieve outputs which meet these objectives. The proposal builds on our existing network, which has already achieved notable output and is eminently qualified for the job. It includes participants from 15 ESF member countries and from key international bodies (UNEP/CMS, BirdLife, MEROS, Raptor Research Foundation) with relevant expertise, databases and members covering all ESF member countries; we have access to a significant proportion of leading and emerging expertise and facilities for such work in Europe. Our multi-disciplinarity (conservation biologists, ecologists, raptor ecotoxi-cologists) will enable development of new leading-edge methods for early detection of environmental change, determination of drivers of change (with levels of certainty) and prediction of emerging problems (e.g. based on combined ecological, chemical, metabonomic and/or genomic techniques). This should effectively position raptors as sentinels of the health of European ecosystems.
Duration
Five years, from the first Steering Committee meeting (17-18 May 2010).
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