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Framework for biodiversity Reconciliation Action Plans |
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Work Package 7: Ecological Mitigation
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Main Goals
• To evaluate and test deterrents as ecological mitigation strategy;
• To integrate ecological mitigation strategies into a framework for reconciliation action plans.
Description of work and methodologies
We will compile and evaluate information on existing ecological
mitigation strategies and test new methods. Existing ecological
mitigation strategies will be evaluated in terms of their ecological
efficacy and cost-effectiveness.
For seals and cormorants, we will use our own published and unpublished
material and that from national ecological mitigation programs. For
otters, no national ecological mitigation programs exist as yet because
of limited success of the few methods tested. Therefore, we will test
the effectiveness of a new ecological mitigation strategy: providing
refuge to fish by otter exclusion cages. Ponds for these experiments
will be selected in the Central European study region according to the
critical factors identified by WPs 2 & WP3.
We will place different types of cages for carp and trout protection in
ponds. Their efficacy will be tested using our tame otters. We will
compare the number of non-commercial and commercial fish and the time
required by the otter to land fish between experimental and control
ponds.
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