H LIFE & Wildlife crime.
Програма LIFE и престъпленията срещу дивата природа (BG-Bulgarian);LIFE και εγκληματικότητα εις βάρος άγριων ειδών (EL-Greek);LIFE & los delitos contra la vida silvestre (ES-Spanish);LIFE & la criminalité liée aux espèces sauvages (FR-French);Program LIFE i kriminal povezan s divljom florom i faunom (HR-Croatian);LIFE & infractiunile legate de speciile salbatice (RO-Romanian);LIFE & o crime contra a vida selvagem (PT-Portuguese);LIFE & i reati contro la fauna selvatica (IT-Italian)
SILVA João Pedro, TOLAND Justin, ELDRIDGE Jon, NOTTINGHAM Stephen, TRAVAGNIN Carla
2018 60p. Wildlife crime has a negative impact on biodiversity across the world. The illegal killing, poisoning, trapping or trade of species is putting the European Union’s biodiversity under pressure. In April 2017, the European Commission adopted the “Action Plan for nature, people and the economy” to improve the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives and boost their contribution towards reaching the EU’s biodiversity targets for 2020. The European Commission developed a Roadmap towards eliminating the illegal killing, trapping and trade of birds. It aims to prevent and tackle wildlife crime in the European Union and therefore ensure compliance with the Birds Directive. The Roadmap also supports the recommendations of the Bern Convention and the implementation of the Convention on Migratory Species by outlining four areas in which the European Commission can support Member States to enforce the law. This new publication shows how LIFE projects have already helped contribute to each of the areas identified in the Roadmap: monitoring and data collection, prevention, information exchange, training and awareness-raising, and enforcement and legal aspects. The aim of the brochure LIFE and EU Wildlife Crime is not only to highlight the actions of specific projects in each of these areas, but also to provide a set of lessons and best practices that will be of use to all those interested in tackling wildlife crime, with a particular focus on illegal killing (poisoning and poaching) of bird species and large carnivores. The first chapter focuses on issues relating to tagging of protected birds and the building of national and transnational databases of poisoning cases. The chapter on prevention brings to the fore the benefits of poison detection dog units, anti-poison stakeholder networks, innovative technologies, teams of nest guardians and effective awareness-raising campaigns. It also touches on poaching of protected fish species, by highlighting good practices such as anti-poaching protocols and alternatives to illegal fishing. The third chapter looks at the impact of LIFE projects that have helped to train police, customs officers, prosecutors and judges. The concluding chapter shows how the LIFE programme is at the forefront of efforts to make the application of law on wildlife crime more consistent across Europe. Regional action plans to tackle illegal poisoning developed with the support of LIFE are now being incorporated into a European action plan by the European Network against Environmental Crime. This new publication puts the programme’s know-how in one place and in an engaging format. We hope that you will find it informative and useful. Thematic dossier
ENVIRONMENT, NATURE & CLIMATE, LIFE, nature & biodiversity, environment quality, nature protection
LIFE, nature & biodiversity, environment quality, nature protection
European Union
ISBN 978-92-79-76744-9
2314-9329
KH-AJ-17-001-EN-N
English, Bulgarian, Greek, Spanish, French, Croatian, Romanian, Portuguese, Italian