the progress made by the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership and the Welcomes encourages Partnership to continue its work; Parties and other donors to regularly contribute to the Waterbird Fund; Strongly urges operative paragraphs 4 - 9 of Resolution 6.3; Reiterates Range States to develop adequate national monitoring schemes following the principles Urges presented in the revised AEWA Conservation Guidelines on waterbird monitoring and its annexes including the recommended seasons and monitoring methods both for breeding and non-breeding waterbirds resulting in the identification and monitoring of international and national important sites and contributing to the production of flyway-level population size and trend estimates for populations listed on Table 1 of the AEWA Action Plan and understanding the causes of population changes; the launch of the African Bird Atlas initiative and Parties and other organisations to Welcomes urges join and support the initiative; the relevant organisations to upgrade the international coordination of the monitoring of the Invites relevant AEWA populations during the breeding season, with particular attention to colonial breeding species and to engage with the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership; Contracting Parties and organisations to provide financial support for the identification of Urges priorities for the systematic development of waterbird monitoring and for the population and site monitoring related activities identified in the and of the AEWA Strategic Plan 2019-2027 Plan of Action for Africa 2019-2027; the Technical Committee and the Secretariat to review the national reporting format, in Invites consultation with the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership; the update of the 1% thresholds for waterbird populations listed on Table 1 of the AEWA Welcomes Action Plan (available on the Waterbird Population Estimates web portal and in Annex 1 of the 7th edition of the AEWA Conservation Status Report) and encourages Parties to use these thresholds when identifying internationally important sites; the Technical Committee and the Secretariat to work with the Ramsar Convention and its Invites regional initiatives, the European Commission as well as the secretariats of CAFF, OSPAR, HELCOM and other relevant regional MEAs to identify possible synergies with respect to waterbird population estimates and to waterbird monitoring and reporting.
Welcomes the progress made by the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership and encourages the Partnership to continue its work; Strongly urges Parties and other donors to regularly contribute to the Waterbird Fund; Reiterates operative paragraphs 4 - 9 of Resolution 6.3; Urges Range States to develop adequate national monitoring schemes following the principles presented in the revised AEWA Conservation Guidelines on waterbird monitoring and its annexes including the recommended seasons and monitoring methods both for breeding and non-breeding waterbirds resulting in the identification and monitoring of international and national important sites and contributing to the production of flyway-level population size and trend estimates for populations listed on Table 1 of the AEWA Action Plan and understanding the causes of population changes; Welcomes the launch of the African Bird Atlas initiative and urges Parties and other organisations to join and support the initiative; Invites the relevant organisations to upgrade the international coordination of the monitoring of the relevant AEWA populations during the breeding season, with particular attention to colonial breeding species and to engage with the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership; Urges Contracting Parties and organisations to provide financial support for the identification of priorities for the systematic development of waterbird monitoring and for the population and site monitoring related activities identified in the AEWA Strategic Plan 2019-2027 and of the Plan of Action for Africa 2019-2027; Invites the Technical Committee and the Secretariat to review the national reporting format, in consultation with the Waterbird Monitoring Partnership; Welcomes the update of the 1% thresholds for waterbird populations listed on Table 1 of the AEWA Action Plan (available on the Waterbird Population Estimates web portal and in Annex 1 of the 7th edition of the AEWA Conservation Status Report) and encourages Parties to use these thresholds when identifying internationally important sites; Invites the Technical Committee and the Secretariat to work with the Ramsar Convention and its regional initiatives, the European Commission as well as the secretariats of CAFF, OSPAR, HELCOM and other relevant regional MEAs to identify possible synergies with respect to waterbird population estimates and to waterbird monitoring and reporting.
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