Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose Conservation Project Annual Report 2000

WWF Finland Report No 13 / Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2001. Edited by Petteri Tolvanen, Ingar Jostein Øien and Kalle Ruokolainen.

Contents

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Front cover  colour painting by ©Jari Kostet

Introduction (pp.5-9) by Tomas Aarvak, Petteri Tolvanen, Ingar Jostein Øien & Juha Markkola

Monitoring of Lesser White-fronted Geese in western Estonia in spring 2000 (pp. 10-11) by Jyrki Pynnönen & Petteri Tolvanen

Spring staging of Lesser White-fronted Geese on the Finnish Bothnian Bay coast in 2000 (pp.12-16) by Juha Markkola

Monitoring of staging Lesser White-fronted Geese at the Valdak Marshes, Norway, in 2000 (pp. 17-22) by Tomas Aarvak & Ingar Jostein Øien

Monitoring on the Lesser White-fronted Goose staging grounds in the Varangerfjord area in autumn 2000 (pp. 22-23) by Riikka Kaartinen

Status of the core breeding area for Lesser White-fronted Geese in Norway (pp. 24-25) by Ingar Jostein Øien, Petteri Tolvanen & Tomas Aarvak

Field survey at the Lesser White-fronted Goose moulting area on Kolguev Island, north-west Russia, August 2000 (pp. 26-29) by Hallvard Strøm, Maria V. Gavrilo & Juri Goryaev

Conservation work for the wetlands and monitoring the autumn staging of Lesser White-fronted Goose in the Kustanay region, north-west Kazakstan, in 2000 (pp. 30-33) by Petteri Tolvanen, Tomas Aarvak & Tatyana Bragina

The occurrence and protection of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Hortobágy, Hungary in the period 1996-2000 (pp. 34-36) by János Tar

The genetic status of the captive Lesser White-fronted Geese used for breeding and reintroduction in Sweden and Finland (pp. 37-39) by Håkan Tegelström, Minna Ruokonen & Susanna Löfgren

The Finnish Lesser White-fronted Goose EU Life/Nature project 1997-2000 (pp. 40-44) by Juha Markkola

Adult mortality as a key factor determining population growth in Lesser White-fronted Goose (pp. 45-47)
by Petri Lampila

Short news (p. 48) - Conservation of Lesser White-fronted Goose at East Dongting Lake, China in 2000, by Lei Gang - Lesser White fronted Goose protected in Lithuania, by Darius Stoncius

Lambart von Essen in memoriam (p. 49) by Juha Markkola

Appendices (pp. 50-52)  Appendix A: Co-operation partners and contacts
Appendix B: Publications from the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project in the report period

Back cover Cartoon by © Seppo Leinonen

Recommended citation for the whole report: Tolvanen, P., Øien, I.J. & Ruokolainen, K. (eds.) 2001: Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project. Annual report 2000. - WWF Finland Report 13 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2001.

Recommended citation for articles, e.g.: Markkola, J. 2001: Spring staging of Lesser White-fronted Geese on the Finnish Bothnian Bay coast in 2000. In: Tolvanen, P., Øien, I.J. & Ruokolainen, K. (eds.): Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project. Annual report 2000. – WWF Finland Report 13 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2001: 12–16.

Contributors

Tomas Aarvak, Tatyana Bragina, Lei Gang, Maria V. Gavrilo, Juri Goryaev, Riikka Kaartinen, Petri Lampila, Susanna Löfgren, Juha Markkola, Ingar Jostein Øien, Jyrki Pynnönen, Minna Ruokonen, Darius Stoncius, Hallvard Strøm, János Tar, Håkan Tegelström and Petteri Tolvanen

Layout: Kalle Ruokolainen

Printed version of this report and previous annual reports of the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project available from: Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society (NOF), Seminarplassen 5, N-7540 Klæbu, Norway and Petteri Tolvanen, WWF Finland, Lintulahdenkatu 10, FIN-00500 Helsinki, Finland

The Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project is sponsored by The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management and
The Finnish Ministry of the Environment.

More information about the Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation:

• www.metsa.fi/natural/projects/lwfg/index.htm
• Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International