Assessing the effectiveness of the Ramsar Convention in preserving wintering waterbirds in the Mediterranean
2020
Gaget, Elie | Le Viol, Isabelle | Pavón-Jordán, Diego | Cazalis, Victor | Kerbiriou, Christian | Jiguet, Frédéric | Popoff, Nadège | Dami, Laura | Mondain-Monval, Jean-Yves | Defos Du Rau, Pierre | Abdou, Wed, A. I. | Božič, Luka | Dakki, Mohamed | Encarnação, Vitor, M. F. | Erciyas-Yavuz, Kiraz | Etayeb, Khaled, Salem | Molina, Blas | Petkov, Nicky | Uzunova, Danka | Zenatello, Marco | Galewski, Thomas | Institut de recherche de la Tour du Valat | Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) ; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) | Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) ; Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage (ONCFS) | Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) | BirdLife International | Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal] (UM5) | Auteur indépendant | Ondokuz Mayis University (OMU) | University of Tripoli - University Al Fateh | Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) | Macedonian Ecological Society [North Macedonia] | Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA)
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اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]إنجليزي. The Mediterranean Basin is a biodiversity hotspot. Wetlands make a key contribution to this status, but many of them remain outside the Ramsar network fifty years after the establishment of the Ramsar Convention. Here we evaluate the extent to which the Mediterranean Ramsar network covers wetlands of international importance for wintering waterbirds using the Ramsar Convention criteria 2 (species of conservation concern), 5 (> 20,000 waterbirds) and 6 (1% of a population). These criteria were applied to 4186 sites in 24 Mediterranean countries using counts of 145 wintering waterbird species from 1991 to 2017. We identified 161 sites of international importance for waterbirds that have not yet been declared as Ramsar sites, which could be added to the 180 current Mediterranean Ramsar sites established based on waterbird criteria (criteria 5 and/or 6). Among these sites, a subset of 32 very important sites reached double the required level for at least one criterion and 95 were not protected by any site conservation status. Coastal wetlands represented half of the Ramsar gap for waterbirds. We identified that an additional 1218 monitored sites could be provisionally considered as internationally important and thus require more survey efforts to assess their status. This study highlights a lack of participation of the Mediterranean countries to build the Ramsar network for wetland protection. Our results should help policymakers and managers to prioritize future Ramsar site designation, notably in the Middle East and Western European region where important gaps were identified.
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