Objective
The project will implement the Shearwater Action Plan within the SPAs designated in the Balearic Islands. Its objective is to ensure the viability of existing colonies, as well as to increase the number of colonies and the subspecies' distribution range by carrying out reintroductions to potentially favorable sites. Detailed monitoring of the shearwater colonies should allow much-needed information on numbers, biology and behaviour of the subspecies to be collected, while simultaneously a plan for predator control and surveillance against nest robbing will be brought into action.
The LIFE project will carry out various awareness-raising activities aimed at the local residents, with an eye to getting them to realize the importance of the subspecies and its conservation and eliminating their practice of catching the birds for consumption.
The Balearic subspecies (Puffinus puffinus mauretanicus) of the Manx shearwater is endemic to the archipelago and threatened, hence a priority for support under LIFE. It is a seabird which only returns to land to nest in burrows or caves in the cliffs along the northern coasts of the Balearic Islands. After spending autumn along the French Atlantic seaboard, the shearwater returns to the Mediterranean in November to mate and nest. A decline of its population has been observed since the mid-20th century and some nesting colonies have even disappeared from the Balearic Islands. At present, 70% of the total breeding population is found on Formentera.
The main threats affecting the species on the islands is predation by rats and introduced mammals, competition for burrows against rabbits and the local residents' habit of catching the birds for gastronomic purposes.
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07006 Palma de Mallorca - Baleare
Spain
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