Seabird Conservation Handbook for West Africa - (for Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone & Cabo Verde)

Seabird Conservation Handbook for West Africa (for Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone & Cabo Verde) This handbook was produced within the framework of the Conservation of Coastal Marine Birds and their Key Sites along the West African coast of the West Africa Marine Conservation Programme funded by the MAVA Foundation and the Darwin Initiative and implemented by B. [...] Colonial birds are attracted to an island especially if bad fishing practices are Seabirds are recognised to occur in the by the indications of the presence of Figure 59: The adaptable management Figure 24: Erosion of a seabird breeding widespread in the area.orders shown. [...] the northwest coast of Africa, extending from the Atlantic coast of Morocco in the • Pelecanidae: Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens occurs in coastal wetlands and offshore islands between southern Mauritania and north at the Straits of Gibraltar to the Bijagós Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau in the Sierra Leone. [...] A key feature of the breeding colonies of terns and gulls Mauritania and Senegal to reduce the risks linked is that they form a network of sites, and numbers breeding at sites can vary to the overexploitation of resources, bycatch and considerably between years. [...] A wide range of of the 19th century followed by the species are experiencing dramatic The current erosion ‘great acceleration’ of the middle of (often irreversible) population declines of biodiversity is so the 20th century, the negative impacts to a level that affects their future and extreme that the 6th on the entire planet are considerable our reservoir of resources.