Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species

Ministry of the Environment

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Name: Department of Nature Conservation

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Ministry of the Environment

52/54 Wawelska St.

00-922 Warsaw

Tel.: (+48 22) 5792366

Fax: (+48 22) 5792730

E-mail: Department.Ochrony.Przyrody@mos.gov.pl

Name: Monika Lesz

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Department of Nature Conservation

Ministry of the Environment

52/54 Wawelska St.

00-922 Warsaw, Poland

Tel.: (+48 Tel: (+48 22) 57 92 667

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E-mail: E-mail: monika.lesz@mos.gov.pl

Forest Research Institute

Tel: (+48 22) 71 50 416

E-mail: A.Rachwald@ibles.waw.pl

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Co-ordinating authority

Name: Department of National Forms of the Nature Protection

Address: Ministry of the Environment

52/54 Wawelska St.

00-922 Warsaw

Tel.: (+48 22) 5792366

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E-mail: Department.Ochrony.Przyrody@mos.gov.pl

Name: Monika Lesz

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Department of Nature Conservation

Ministry of the Environment

52/54 Wawelska St.

00-922 Warsaw, Poland

Tel.: (+48 Tel: (+48 22) 57 92 667

Fax: (+4 Fax: (+48 22) 57 92 730

E-mail: E-mail: monika.lesz@mos.gov.pl

Address: The Hel Marine Station of the University of Gdańsk

2 Morska Str.,

84-150 Hel, Poland

Tel.: +48 58/ 675 08 36

Fax: +48 58/ 675 04 20

E-mail: hel@ug.edu.pl

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General Directorate for Environmental Protection

Department of Nature Conservation

National Secretariat of the Aquatic warbler MoU

52/54 Wawelska St.

00-922 Warsaw, Poland

Tel.: (+48 22) 5792186

Fax: (+48 22) 5792128

E-mail: sekretariat.wodniczka@gdos.gov.pl

Name: Patrycja Stawiarz

Address: General Directorate for Environmental Protection

52/54 Wawelska St.

00-922 Warsaw, Poland

Tel.: (+48 22) 5792186

Fax: (+48 22) 5792128

E-mail: Patrycja.Stawiarz@gdos.gov.pl

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Ministry of Environment

General Directorate for Environmental Protection

Chef Inspectorate of Environmental Protection

State Forests

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (concerned with fisheries)

Ministry of Infrastructure (concerned with transport)

Ministry of National Defense (concerned with sea training areas)

Ministry of Environment is responsible for implementing of Convention with cooperation of other ministries as well as General Directorate for Environmental Protection and Regional Directorates for Environmental Protection

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List the main non-governmental organizations actively involved in activities/initiatives for the conservation of migratory species in your country, and describe their involvement:

Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków (OTOP, Polish National Society for the Protection of Birds), stowarzyszenie Ptaki Polskie (Polish Birds assocciation), Komitet Ochrony Orłów (KOO, Eagles Protection Committee), Polskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków (PTOP, Polish Society for the Protection of Birds) and Towarzystwo Przyrodnicze “Bocian” (Assocciation for the Nature Protection “The Stork”) have conducted projects for the conservation of birds.

Klub Przyrodników (Club of the Naturalists), Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Nietoperzy (Polish Society for the Conservation of Bats), Polskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Przyrody “Salamandra” (Polish Society for the Nature Conservation “The Salamaner”), Polskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Przyrody “pro Natura” (Polish Society of the Nature Friends “pro Natura”), Fundacja Ekologiczna Ziemi Legnickiej “Zielona Akcja” (Ecologicaf Fundation of the Legnica Land “Green Action”), Towarzystwo Przyrodnicze “Bocian” (Assocciation for the Nature Protection “The Stork”, Stowarzyszenie Speleoklub Beskidzki (The Beskidy Club of Speleology) have conducted projects for the conservation of bats.

Friends of Hel Association and the Foundation for Development of the University of Gdańsk have conducted projects for the conservation of cetaceans and seals.

Chef Inspectorate of Environmental Protection

General Directorate for Environmental Protection

Regional Directorates for Environmental Protection

State Forests

Describe any involvement of the private sector in the conservation of migratory species in your country:

Tikkurila Polska SA., Nordea Bank Polska SA., mBank, POLKOMTEL SA., Kredyt Bank, PKN Orlen SA., Polsko-Szwedzka Izba Gospodarcza z Gdańska, PETROBALTIC, SANITEC KOŁO, AUTOMOBIL,”Grundfos” Pompy SA., Bank Ochrony Środowiska SA. have given a financial and logistic support for projects on conservation of marine mammals in the Polish Baltic waters. CEMEX Polska Sp. z o.o. have given a financial support for project on the conservation of the Aquatic warbler in Poland and Germany

Permanent cooperation Ministry of Environment with the General Directorate for Environmental Protection and Regional Directorates for Environmental Protection, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Voivode Funds for Environmental Protection and Water Management , NGOs – what’s results with amendments of current legislation and concrete initiatives as below ;

In 2007 the programme of bird monitoring in Poland co-ordinated by the Chef Inspectorate for Environmental Protection was launched. In 2010, within the programme 16 subprogrammes were implemented. These included:

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  Monitoring of Flagship Species of Birds
  
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  Monitoring of Birds of Prey
  
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  Monitoring of Forest Owls
  
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  Monitoring of Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos
  
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  Monitoring of Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga
  
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  Monitoring of Osprey Pandion haliaetus
  
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  Monitoring of Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
  
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  Monitoring of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
  
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  Monitoring of Dundlin Calidris alpina schinzii
  
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  Monitoring of Mediterranean gull Larus melanocephalus
  
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  Monitoring of Roller Coracias garrulus
  
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  Monitoring of Great Snipe Gallinago media
  
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  Monitoring of Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
  
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  Monitoring of Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus
  

In the years 2009-2010, the manual guide books on monitoring of nesting birds, animal species and natural habitats were published by the Chef Inspectorate for Environmental Protection were published

The Sea Fisheries Institute (MIR) in Gdynia, at the commission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has been conducting the “Monitoring Incidental Catch of Cetaceans” Scheme and the Long-term Programme for Collecting Fisheries Data

The 3-years project Active protection of Harbour Porpoises against by-catch was by carried out in the years 2008-2010 by he Hel Marine Station of the University of Gdańsk, supported by the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

There is also regular monitoring of avifauna carried out on Important Bird Areas of European Union Importance, co-ordinated by the Polish National Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP).

Since 2005 a LIFE project co-ordinated by OTOP “Conserving Aquatic Warbler in Poland and Germany” (LIFE 05NAT/PL/000101) is conducted. The end of the project is foreseen in 2011. In Spetember 2010 a new LIFE+ project started “Facilitating Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) habitat management through sustainable systems of biomass use” (LIFE09 NAT/PL/000260). The project is coordinated by OTOP.

The program of reintroduction of the Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrhinchus is conducted in Poland since 2007 under the supervision of Mininstry of Agriculture and Rural Development Monitoring of Birds Programme

Permanent cooperation Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in fulfilling ASCOBANS and HELCOM commitments.