| | OSPAR has adopted an action plan to reduce and eliminate the main pressures that arise from certain human activities that impact marine birds in the North-East Atlantic.
The Regional Action Plan for Marine Birds (RAP-Bird) was developed in consultation with stakeholders from the renewables, fisheries and conservation sectors, and identifies a series of important protection and conservation actions that support the achievement of OSPAR’s North-East Atlantic Environment Strategy 2030 to achieve biologically diverse and healthy seas, and which will help to halt the decline of marine birds.
The ambitious plan will initially deliver:
- Enhanced measures for marine birds: identifying and implementing actions to protect all marine bird species in trouble, including those that are not currently Listed as Threatened and/or Declining in the OSPAR area.
- Flyways scale conservation: addressing threats to migratory marine birds from factors outside the North-East Atlantic through a holistic approach and wider cooperation with international NGOs and conventions operating outside of the North-East Atlantic.
- Reduction of incidental bycatch of marine birds through measures adopted for all fishing gears, along with commitments to collate data and assess interactions between fishing and marine bird bycatch.
- Best practice for mitigation/compensation measures for offshore wind developments, recognising the potential for offshore wind developments planned in the OSPAR area to significantly impact marine birds across the North-East Atlantic.
- Measures to protect breeding colonies from invasive predatory mammals and to restore safe nesting habitats.
Over the summer OSPAR also agreed a background document on marine bird bycatch, and a Recommendation on reducing by-catch of marine birds in the maritime area.
We'd like to thank all of the OSPAR family and friends involved in researching, consulting, writing and approving OSPAR's work on marine birds. There is sound scientific evidence that marine birds are in decline as a result of human activities. Through international collaboration - such as this ambitious OSPAR action plan – we can join forces to improve the fortunes of these iconic species. #TogetherWeAreStronger #OSPARprotects |  | | The Regional Action Plan for Marine Birds | | 
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