Каспинфо
июль 2002

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Название: Объявления на англ. языке
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(18.07.2002)

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Объявления на англ. языке
Объявления на англ. языке

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RESOLUTION
OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON SAIGA CONSERVATION


1. An international workshop on saiga conservation convened at the
initiative of the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia, was held in
Elista, Kalmykia's capital, May 5-10, 2002.
2. The workshop was made possible by the combined efforts of the
Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the
Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia in the Republic of Kalmykia;
Caspian Programme of ISAR; the Russian Committee for the UNESCO
Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB), and the financial support of
international and national donors (Secretariat of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES); Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS); the
Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union
(IUCN/SSC); World Wide Fund for Nature; Large Herbivore Initiative of
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF/LHI); Royal Netherlands Embassy in
the Russian Federation; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Conservation
Force, USA; Safari Club, Houston; "Kalmneft" Open Joint-Stock Company;
"Kalmtatneft" Open Joint-Stock Company; Russian Joint-Stock Company
"Rosneftegazstroi". Workshop participants acknowledged the initiative
of the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia in hosting such an
important international workshop and expressed their gratitude to all
sponsors of the workshop, members of Organizing Committee and
facilitators who made valuable input in the workshop's success.
3. More than 90 specialists took part in the workshop, including:
representatives of the five range states (Russian Federation, Republic
of Kazakhstan, Republic of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Mongolia);
representatives of international organizations responsible for
migratory species protection and international trade in rare and
endangered species of wild flora and fauna; governmental and
non-governmental nature conservation organizations; other
organizations and agencies.
4. At plenary and thematic sessions the workshop participants
discussed causes of a decrease in saiga numbers practically throughout
its entire range, except for Mongolia, where there is a separate
subspecies (Saiga tatarica mongolica) and its strict protection has
been ensured in collaboration with the local population. Poaching for
horns, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine, has become the
main reason for the steep decline in saiga numbers. Besides horns
poachers also hunt saigas to obtain meat for sale at local markets.
To stop this negative process the CITES Secretariat proposed that the
Standing Committee recommends to all Parties that no imports of
specimens of this species be accepted from Kazakhstan and Russian
Federation. Workshop participants noted the necessity of expanding
cooperation on all levels, including with nations importing saiga
horns, so as to prevent illegal trade and restore saiga habitat and
abundance for future sustainable use and requested the range states
delegations at the forthcoming in 2002 CITES COP to discuss usefulness
of temporal moratorium on trade of any saiga specimens and take the
relevant decision.
5. Besides combating poaching and illegal trade the workshop
participants discussed such main topics as monitoring of
populations/habitats of saiga; the role of strictly protected natural
areas; establishing captive breeding centers for genepool
conservation; collaboration with local population; and interregional
and international cooperation. Detailed discussions of these issues
were carried out at plenary sessions and in small groups where
proposals and recommendations for the conservation and sustainable use
of saiga were elaborated. These proposals have been added to drafts
of the Memorandum of Understanding and Action Plan for saiga
conservation a preparation and advance distribution to all interested
bodies of which were initiated by the Secretariat of CMS. At the
plenary session workshop participants approved these drafts together
with additions made by six working groups and recommended to relevant
authorities of each range state in collaboration with CITES and CMS to
sign these documents as soon as possible.
6. Workshop participants with gratitude accepted a proposal of the CMS
Secretariat to undertake postings of final versions of Memorandum of
Understanding and Action Plan to the range states and expressed the
hope that it will allow to speed up the process of signing of above
documents. Moreover, there was achieved an agreement that CMS and
CITES together with range states will take necessary steps to
strengthen control of international trade in horns and other products
derivable from saiga. Also workshop participants called upon the
governments of the range states to increase their efforts towards
conservation and restoration of saiga and its habitats including
migration corridors; encouraged all stakeholders to contribute to the
implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding and Action Plan
which could be the important inputs in the framework of Agreement on
conservation and use of migrating bird and mammal species and their
habitats signed by members of the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS) in 1994.
7. Workshop participants wish to suggest that after the entry into
effect of the Memorandum of Understanding and Action Plan it will be
desirable to create an intergovernmental commission which will be
responsible for their implementing and for the overall coordination of
efforts of all organizations interested in conservation of saiga.
Along with this commission workshop participants expressed the
necessity to create an international public expert council as an
instrument for independent assessment of any projects which could lead
to changes in saiga populations and requested Russian MAB Committee to
agree upon a process of its forming and terms of references.
8. Workshop participants also noted that the conservation and
restoration of saiga and its habitats can contribute to the programs
of poverty eradication and sustainable development of range states.
The conservation of this endangered species cannot be separated from
other national and regional efforts to conserve biodiversity and to
combat land degradation as it is addressed by the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Convention on Desertification
Control (CCD). Accordingly it will be necessary to integrate
conservation and sustainable use efforts for saiga and its habitat
into the national strategies and action plans required under these
instruments and any future Memoranda of Understanding concluded under
CMS and CITES auspices.
9. Workshop participants requested national and regional governmental
bodies to consider the possibility of creating new protected natural
areas (PNA), particularly transboundary to protect migrating saiga
herds, and strengthen existing local PNA networks to secure free
connections between fragmented sub-populations. In some suitable areas
it will be desirable to establish several saiga breeding centers that
will be important to conserve its genepool.
10. The workshop participants asked local and national authorities to
publicize the workshop results and widely distribute the information
on programs aimed to conserve, restore and sustainable use of saiga as
the living heritage of the Eurasian steppes which must be maintained
for future generations. Workshop participants asked also the
Organizing Committee to distribute this Resolution to the range state
governments and publish the papers presented at the workshop as a
separate volume that should be forwarded to CITES and CMS and other
agencies and organizations interested in conservation, restoration and
sustainable use of saiga.
11. Workshop participants requested experts from range states to
conduct analysis of long-term observations on changes in ecology and
biology of saiga which could be used for publishing in the Journal
"Arid Ecosystems" and for preparing a set of teaching aids.
12. Workshop participants requested the Government of Republic of
Kalmykia to continue its efforts to promote a cooperation among all
parties concerned with saiga conservation. In this connection it will
be important to expand the Wild Animals Conservation Center of
Republic of Kalmykia and to use it as a base for training of local and
visiting students. It will be also necessary to support the
development and utilization of the most up-to-date technologies for
conducting counts and other studies on ecology of saiga, and the
establishing relevant database to promote information exchange among
the saiga range states and with the Secretariats of CMS, CITES and
other agencies. Workshop participants invited all national and
international governmental institutions (including the Global
Environmental Facility (GEF) and its implementing agencies) inside as
well as outside saiga range to implement the Action Plan and to
integrate it into their programs and activities.

Russian MAB Committee

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