Conservation status in Poland |
Conservation status in the World |
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Great snipe is strictly protected under the Decree of the Minister of the Environment from 16 December 2016 on the protection of animal species (Journal of Laws item 2183). According to §6 para. 1 of the above decree, the following prohibitions apply to this species:
In addition, intentional disturbance at roosting, breeding or rearing and feeding places for groups of migrating or wintering birds (§ 6 item 3) are prohibited. Photographing, filming or observation, which may cause disturbance in also forbidden (§ 6 item 4). Great snipe is mentioned in the Polish Red Data Book of Animals as a high-risk species, threatened with extinction - VU category (Vulnerable). The current, declining abundance trend requires upholding of this status. |
Due to the fact that the global population of the species shows long-term downward trends, including populations within its main range of occurrence (primarily in Russia), on a global scale the grate snipe has been recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as near threatened (NT).
In 2015, IUCN issued a separate status assessment of breeding birds in Europe and the 27 European Union states (BirdLife International 2015). According to this assessment, the great snipe has been classified as a species of least concern in Europe (LC). It was concluded that under the IUCN criteria it did not qualify for the vulnerable status due very large range, satisfactory population size and slow decline. The situation of the species in the of 27 EU countries is, however, much worse - VU (Vulnerable), due to the small and declining population and negligible prospects of halting the decline outside the EU. This species is listed in Annex I of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2009/147 / EC of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds (M.P. 2011 No. 38, item 425) - hereinafter referred to as the Birds Directive. The species listed in Annex I are subject to special conservation measures for their habitats to ensure their survival and reproduction in their area of occurrence. Great snipe was recognized by BirdLife International (BirdLife 2004) as a globally endangered species (SPEC 1). Great snipe is listed in Annex II of the Bonn Convention for the Protection of Migratory Animals, which lists species with inadequate conservation status of populations and for which there is a need to make international agreements to protect them. Poland has been a party to the Convention since May 1, 1996. The species has also been included in Annex II of the Bern Convention concerning the protection of European wild flora and fauna species and their habitats. Annex II covers animal species that should be strictly protected. Poland ratified the Convention on 13 September 1995. The Convention has been in force since 1 January 1996. In 2004, the International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Great Snipe Gallinago media was created under the Agreement on the Protection of African-Eurasian Migratory Water Birds, coordinated by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Bonn Convention (UNEP-AEWA 2004). Poland is not a party to the agreement. Dubelt is a game species in Russia and is also being hunted illegally in Belarus and Ukraine. Due to the admissibility of the common snipe hunting in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, great snipe may be a victim of species misidentification in these countries. In addition, great snipes can be hunted on migration routes and wintering grounds but determining the scale of this phenomenon is difficult. |
