Key points of the foreseen National Biodiversity Monitoring Scheme in Lithuania

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Key points of the foreseen National Biodiversity
Monitoring Scheme in Lithuania
Vytautas Naruevicius Environmental Protection
Agency Vilnius 2004 10 15
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Main international legal acts and treaties
considered

• EC Directives 79/409/EEC, 92/43/EEC, 2000/69/EC,
  Dec. 97/26/EC
• EC Convention on Biological Diversity
• Convention on Wetlands of International
  Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat
  (Ramsar Convention)
• Convention on the Conservation of European
  Wildlife and Natural Habitat (Bern convention)
• Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the
  Living Resources in the Baltic Sea and the Belts
  (Gdansk Convention)
• Convention on the Protection of the Marine
  Environment of the Baltic Sea Area (Helsinki
  Convention)
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory
  Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention)
• Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air
  Pollution
• Agreement on the Conservation of Bats in Europe

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Main international environmental institutions
information needs considered

• European Environment Agency
• Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
• International Council for the Exploration of the
  Sea
• European and Mediterranean Plant Protection
  Organization

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Main environmental problems concerned

• Biodiversity loss
• Unreasonable use of nature resources
• Spreading of invasive species, concerned as
  dangerous for biodiversity or humans

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Main environmental aims and tasks to reach with
help of NMP measures

• Aim to allow halting of biodiversity loss till
  2010
• Tasks
• to evaluate and forecast changes of the state of
  species and habitats of EU concern, and main
  driving forces
• to evaluate agriculture development impact to the
  state of field vegetation, forming ecological
  background for land conversion
• to assess the impact of certain economic units
  activities on status biodiversity and nature
  resources

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Main environmental aims and tasks to reach with
help of NMP measures

• Aim to establish conditions for conservation
  and sustainable use of nature resources
• Tasks
• to supervise the status of natural forest
  ecosystems, determining the impact of pollution
• to gather and assess information to allow
  sustainable use of game and fish resources

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Main environmental aims and tasks to reach with
help of NMP measures

• Aim to form the background for effective and
  reasonable control of problematic and invasive
  species
• Tasks
• to supervise the status and control spreading of
  invasive wildlife and natural vegetation species
  populations, considered as most dangerous for
  biodiversity
• to control and forecast of blow-outs of
  nastiest species of bloodsucking insects

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Means chosen to implement NMP

• Monitoring of the state of
• Habitats and species of EU concern up to 274
  territories for habitats, 181 for mammals,
  reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects and plant
  species, 78 for birds
• Species of EU concern (except.) wolves (30
  sites) and beavers (38)
• Forests I (European and Regional) and II
  (intensive) levels (gt900)
• Regulated game species ungulates (40)
• Fish up to 150 sites
• Field vegetation species
• Problemic and invasive species plants (40) and
  wildlife (28)
• Monitoring of certain economic units activities
  impact on state of biodiversity and nature
  resources

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Linkages with other subprogrammes of NEMP

• Water water vegetation, fish, invasive
  organisms
• Ecosystems forest vegetation, benthic and soil
  invertebrates

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Share of functions

• MoE Nature Protection Department
• - formulation of the environmental objectives,
  priorities, reporting
• Scientific institutes
• - grounding of observation system
• - management oriented analysis of data and
  information, background information
• State Forest Management Service
• - organization of forest monitoring, part of
  analysis, background information, reporting
• Environmental Protection Agency
• - organization of the rest part of national
  nature monitoring, reporting
• State Protected Areas Service under MoE
• - organization of nature monitoring in DSPAs,
  reporting
• Directions of State Protected Areas
• - Environmental Management Plans and background
  information
• Centre of Marine Research
• - marine habitats background information,
  analysis
• MoE Regional Departments
• - information on impact of certain economic
  units activities to biodiversity

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Share of functions in reporting
European Commission, EEA, other international
authorities
Reporting on Directives
Other required information
EPA
SF MS
Reporting
Request
SSPA
Scientific institutions
Data and information analysis
MRC
Data collection, processing, preliminary
analysis
Directions of State Protected Areas
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NMP implementation criteria

• Necessary information presented to international
  authorities to implement the EC goal halt
  biodiversity loss till 2010
• Data on state of forests on national scale are
  collected each year
• At least every three years the mean number of
  hunting licences issued is evaluated by
  independent monitoring data
• Fishing quotas for salmon fish are reasoned
• The spreding scale is determined for all most
  dangerous invasive species till year 2010
• Every year the possible density of bloodsucking
  Black flies is credibly forecasted and regulating
  means could be reasonably taken

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• Thank You!