Agenda EN
Wednesday 21st may
9.00 - 9.30 h. Reception and credentials
9.30 - 10.00 h. Institutional Welcome
Speaker:
Eduardo de Miguel Beascoechea
Director. Fundación Global Nature (FGN).
Borja Heredia Armada
Technical advisor. Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITECO).
Christopher Baker
Director. Wetlands International (WI).
Telma Branco Wunsch
Policy officer. European Commission, DG Environment.
10.00 - 10.30 h. Opening speech. Aquatic Warblers on the Move.
Current status of the species and populations worldwide. Latest research.
Speaker:
Martin Flade
Aquatic Warbler Conservation Team (AWCT) / BirdLife International.
10.30 - 11.00 h. Coffee break
11.00 - 13.00 h. Joint efforts to save the aquatic warblers. LIFE AWOM.
LIFE AWOM: Roadmap for the conservation of a species on the edge.
Speaker:
Valeria Numbela Claure
Project manager. Wetlands International (WI).
From Belgium to Senegal: key site network for the aquatic warbler.
Speaker:
Bernat Espluga
Project tecnician. Associació Institut Català d'Ornitologia (ICO).
Habitat restoration and management: actions on the ground.
Speaker:
Antonio Guillem Avivar
Wetlands coordinator. Fundación Global Nature (FGN).
From the field to the desk. How we measure our actions´impact.
Speaker:
Mallaury Lacombe
Chargée de mission coordination du programme LIFE AWOM. Bretagne Vivante (BV).
And then what? How to ensure that what we've learned is replicated.
Speaker:
Charlotte Van den Auwelant
Work Package 6 coordinator. Natuurpunt.
13.00 - 14.00 h. Lunch break
14.00 - 15.15 h. Current conservation initiatives. Part I
14.00 - 14.15 h. Aquatic warbler´s lessons learnt from previous LIFE projects.
Speaker:
Jaroslaw Krogulec
Director de conservación. Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP)/ BirdLife Poland.
14.15 - 14.30 h. Sibbling project for the conservation of the aquatic warbler in Notrheast Europe “LIFE4AquaticWarbler”.
Speaker:
Žymantas Morkvėnas
Director. Baltic Environmental Forum.
14.30 - 14.45 h. International agreements for migratory birds protection. The work of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species and links to the aquatic warbler work.
Speaker:
Tilman Scheider
Associate Programme Management Officer. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).
15.00 - 15.15 h. National Strategy for Protected Areas in France, its achievements and challenges. Elements that help to preserve the aquatic warbler.
Speaker:
Fabien Coquereau
Chargé de mission espèces/biodiversité/connaissance. Dirección General de Medio Ambiente en Bretaña (Francia).
15.15 - 15.45 h. Coffee break
15.45 - 17.00 h. Current conservation initiatives. Part II.
The role of the IUCN Red List towards the conservation of the aquatic warbler.
Speaker:
Jorge Orueta
Conservation Technician. Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN) / Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO).
Legal tools for the conservation of reed birds.
Speaker:
Rubén Moreno - Opo
Head of Terrestrial Fauna Service. Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITECO).
Spanish National Strategy of Reed birds.
Speaker:
Iván Alambiaga
Researcher. Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva - Universidad de Valencia.
Restauration of wetlands for the marbled duck and other threatened water birds.
Speaker:
Yolanda Cortés
LIFE Certeta Pardilla´s coordinator. Fundación Biodiversidad (FB).
Questions.
17.00 h. Closing remarks
Thursday 22nd may
9.00 - 10.00 h. Mecanismos de financiación para la restauración de zonas húmedas.
Wetlands4Climate Methodology for the management and restoration of mediterranean wetlands.
Speaker:
Vanessa Sánchez Ortega
Head of policies and climate change. Fundación Global Nature (FGN).
Moor Futures Standard.
10.00 - 10.45 h. Technical Presentations per region. Past, present and future of the species.
Wintering in Africa: Senegal.
Speaker:
Richard Dacosta
Technical director. Wetlands International Africa (WIACO).
Aquatic warbler´s migration in the Maghreb.
Speaker:
Alejandro Onrubia
Project coordinator. Fundación Migres.
Status, conservation and migration of the aquatic warbler in Morocco
Speaker:
Mohamed Amezian
Project manager. Groupe de Recherche pour la Protection des Oiseaux au Maroc (GREPOM/Birdlife Morocco).
11.00 - 11.30 h. Coffee break
11.15 - 12.30 h. Technical Presentations per region. Past, present and future of the species.
Status, conservation and migration of the aquatic warbler in Spain.
Speaker:
David Miguélez Carbajo
Technician. Fundación Global Nature (FGN).
Status, conservation and migration of the aquatic warbler in Portugal.
Speaker:
Julieta Costa
Project oordinator. Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves (SPEA).
Status, conservation and migration of the aquatic warbler in France.
Speaker:
Christine Blaize
French Species Action Plan (SAP) coordinator. Bretagne Vivante (BV).
Status, conservation and migration of the aquatic warbler in Belgium.
Speaker:
Stefan Versweyveld
Head of nature conservation. Natuurpunt.
Aplication of new tracking technologies.
Speaker:
Eduardo Santamaría García
Technician. Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC.
12.30 - 13.00 h. Conclusions.
Speaker:
Antonio Guillem Avivar
Wetlands coordinator. Fundación Global Nature (FGN).
Szabolc Nagy
Project supervisor. Wetlands International (WI).
Christopher Baker
Director. Wetlands International (WI).