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Conservation arrangements for Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia (LIFE AQPOM)
Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,
...f the total EU population and 24% of the population for the whole European continent.
Unfortunately, the number of breeding pairs has decreased since 2000. During the past decade, the decline of the Latvian population is estimated to be at least 15%. Furthermore, the most recent studies confirm that the decline is ongoing. Such losses in the Latvian population are of particular concern given the ...
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Improving of the conservation status of specially protected bird species in Natura 2000 site âAdaziâ (LIFE Birds in Adazi)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
Background
Latvia's Adazi Natura 2000 site has been largely shaped by military activities. However, a decline in the intensity of military activities has led to overgrowth of open habitats, most notably dry sand heaths with heather (Calluna) and crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), which are nesting, foraging and/or mating sites for the black grouse (Tetrao tetri ...
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Eagles Cross Borders (Eagles)
Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2013,
Latvian Fund of Nature will cooperate with Estonian Ornithology Society to carry out a joint research and monitoring of the White-tailed Eagle and Osprey in both countries. Project will also educate the relevant stakeholders, students and general public on these eagle species. Achieve ...
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Marine protected areas in the Eastern Baltic Sea (Baltic MPAs)
Start date: Aug 1, 2005, End date: Nov 30, 2009,
Background
The Baltic Sea is a unique and fragile marine ecosystem hosting many species and habitats of European and global interest, including the Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) which has its own European Species Action Plan. It is believed that the by-catch of birds and seals in fishing nets is a problem in the Baltic Sea and assumed that habitat ...
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Restoration of Latvian floodplains for EU priority species and habitats (Meadows)
Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Jun 30, 2008,
...uvial forests. They also host Latvia's highest breeding densities of the LIFE priority bird species Crex crex (400-685 individuals) and Aquila pomarina (59-120 individuals), as well as a third of the Latvian Gallingo media population (59-120 individuals).
The main threat to these floodplains came from their fragmentation and from a lack of management; most had been abandoned and were gradually be ...
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