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The opportunity for international species conservation in mineral site restoration: the BirdLife & CEMEX Turtle Dove Flyway
• Overview of partnership working • The turtle dove conservation priority • The CEMEX flyway project
S. Tarrant1, C. Butt2, P. Fernández Díaz3, T. Proud1
1RSPB, Sandy, United Kingdom, [email protected] @Sam_Tarrant 2BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3CEMEX, Brügg,Switzerland
Partnership Background • The BirdLife CEMEX Global partnership
– launched in 2007
– Scoping study – quarries which overlap biodiversity hotspots
– Developed a Biodiversity action Plan standard
– Developed national partnerships
• The RSPB CEMEX UK Biodiversity Partnership
– Commenced Oct. 2009
– CEMEX UK Biodiversity Strategy 2010 -2020
– On target created c. 600+ ha of priority habitats
• Strategic biodiversity focus:
1. Create and manage priority biodiversity habitats
2. Saving Priority Species
3. Establish Biodiversity Flagship sites
4. Empower employees for biodiversity conservation
5. Work in partnership for biodiversity
6. Champion Biodiversity
The RSPB
• Largest nature conservation NGO in Europe
• Largest bird conservation organisation in the world
• 1.1 million members , 200+ nature reserves and >140,000 ha of land across the UK
We
• seek to reverse declines in biodiversity in the UK and Global
• acquire land to create important habitat & safeguard species
• Work partnership and provide advice to others
This is CEMEX UK…….
……but so is this!
CEMEX UK’s 9 nature reserves – 750,000 visitors a year
Turtle dove breeding population sizes and short-term trends across Europe
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Turtle dove population trend in Europe Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme data from http://www.ebcc.info/pecbm.html
Country Population size (pairs) Period Short-term population
trend (%)
Year or
period
Minimum Maximum minimum maximum
Spain 2004-2006 1370000 2285000 1998-2012 -29 -29
France 2009-2012 397000 481000 1996-2012 -10 -20
Germany 2005-2009 25000 45000 1998-2009 -38 -58
Portugal 2008-2012 10000 50000 2004-2011 -39 -59
UK 2009 14000 14000 1998-2010 -77 -77
Netherlands 2008-2011 4763 5715 2002-2011 -27 -55
Belgium 2008-2012 3000 4500 2000-2012 -38 -58
Switzerland 2008-2012 600 2000 2001-2012 -10.1 -55.3
Luxembourg 2008-2012 150 200 2000-2012 0 -20
Denmark 2011-2011 100 100 1999-2011 50
1824613 2887515
Western flyway population numbers & trends
1) Breeding grounds research
2) Establishing feeding & nesting habitat over the core breeding range
3) Migration route & wintering grounds research
4) Communication & fundraising
Project overview
Premise for the quarry project
Quarries – potentially a great opportunity to expand turtle dove conservation beyond farmland • Thick scrub • Water features • Land to enhance with forage mix • CEMEX – keen to help.
CEMEX Turtle Dove Flyway
• Objectives
– Select and enhance 15 CEMEX sites across EU by end 2016
– Monitor intervention effectiveness
– Scale up project
• Outcomes
– Effective intervention understood
– Direct conservation benefits
Providing Food
CEMEX UK – Turtle Dove Project Sites • Site selection criteria
– Close proximity to known breeding sites. Within 5km.
– Not effecting current RSPB trial sites.
– With suitable habitats. Scrub and Water
– Not effecting quarry operations.
• Enhancement sites • Control sites
Westwood Quarry, Hertfordshire 4 ha TD mix – c. 2018
Progress and Next steps • The 10 CEMEX UK sites surveyed by volunteers, in 2014 and 2015.
• In UK - 1 in 2014, 2 (+3 juveniles) 2015 • Four enhancement sites sown. • Added to planning application – benefit of gaining permission. • International Flyway – 2 sites in France with LPO, 1 site in Spain with SEO
• Repeat surveys 2016 / 2017. • Review effectiveness. • Scale up delivery through other operators
