🚀🦢 The first-ever workplan of the Flight Safety Task Force was adopted at #EGMIWG9 in Tromsø! 🎉✈️ Exciting projects underway—like a European databank on aircraft-goose strikes 🛫📊 & GPS tagging to monitor goose movements around airports 🚨📍 🔗egmp.aewa.info/sites/default/…

🌿 Nature can be rough! 🐥 The chicks of Arctic #BarnacleGeese learn that early on. Just 24 hours after hatching, they must leap from their high cliff nests to escape predators and get to food sources🦅🏞️ Witness the incredible resistance of this species:nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

#DidYouKnow every species plan under @AEWA is evaluated at the end of its lifespan to decide its future—retired, extended, updated or revised? 🤔 The #PinkfootedGoose plan is the first under #EGMP to be evaluated! 📊 Curious? The evaluation report here:📄 egmp.aewa.info/.../docum.../A…

✨ Those feet are made for walkin'!🎶 #PinkfootedGeese cover up to 24 km across the tundra on foot. Soon, delegates will also be traveling to the Workshop for revision of the PfG management plan sponsored by Miljødirektoratet and supported by NINA naturforskning. 🔗t.ly/i-Onl

🚀#HappeningNow The #PinkfootedGoose Management Plan Revision Workshop kicks off in Levanger, Norway! With Range States presenting on conservation, harvest levels and key concerns, stage is set for crucial discussions as delegates work together to shape the plan's future. 👩‍💼🧑‍💼

🌿 Even the busiest workshops need a nature break! Today, our participants went on an excursion around #Levanger, a key stopover for #PinkfootedGoose ✨ 2 more EGMP species were spotted - #GreylagGoose #BarnacleGoose! 🌾

🎉 The Pink-footed Goose Management Plan Revision Workshop is a wrap! Congrats to Range States & observers for great progress made. Now the compiler team will work on finalising the plan for AEWA MOP9 adoption! 🌍✍️ Big thanks to Miljødirektoratet & NINAnature for hosting & support! 👏

The European Goose Management Platform AEWA European Goose Management Platform was recognized for innovation as a finalist for UN Environment Programme's Kipepeo Award Learn more: unep-aewa.org/en/news/europe… 📸Magnus Elander

It's #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! 🌍 This year the focus is insects 🐞 and their crucial role in bird migrations. Geese under EGMP rely on thriving ecosystems where insects are key. Let’s celebrate and learn how to #ProtectInsectsProtectBirds: 🌿🦢 worldmigratorybirdday.org #WMBD2024

❓Quiz Time! 🤩 Which of the 4 species under #EGMP is the trickiest to identify? 🤔 Drop your guesses in the replies below!⬇️ #BirdQuiz #GuessTheBird #QuizOfTheDay

🎉You got it right! Identifying the #TaigaBeanGoose can be tricky since it looks so similar to the #TundraBeanGoose. 🔍 EGMP’s Identification Guide is here to help! egmp.aewa.info/workshop-revis…... It is also available in Danish, Finnish and Ukrainian! 📷 egmp.aewa.info/resources/publ…

✨Something told the wild geese It was time to go, Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, "snow." ... By Rachel Field yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?p… 📽️Jorn Haudemann-Andersen & Per Ivar Nicolaisen 🎶Goose Point Beach/Stephen Buzzell motionarray.com African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA)

📚New research highlights the effects of hunting as a strategy to manage human-wildlife conflict, focusing on Greenland barnacle and white-fronted geese on Islay, Scotland.🌾esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…

The #EGMP Data Centre's very own Professor Jesper Madsen recently shared his expertise on goose ecology and international management of geese under EGMP with students at the University Centre in Svalbard! 👉shorturl.at/UAUvE #ConservationEducation 📷Larissa Beumer

📊 November Update: The population count revealed many #pinkfootedgeese still staging in #Trøndelag, central Norway, enjoying the stubble fields as their foraging grounds. 🌾 📷Kjell Heggelund #speciesmonitoring #speciesconservation #pinkfootedgoose #adaptivemanagement

It was great to see Lisa Vergin at her field site today monitoring Taiga Bean Geese. Watching an incredible flock of 100+ birds feeding with Barnacles, a couple of Pink feet + a few White fronted geese was a real pleasure. Thank you!! In total, 433 were seen by the team!

The EGMP Task Forces came together today for an engaging and fruitful joint meeting, It was an excellent opportunity to exchange updates, discuss upcoming activities and set plans for the busy season ahead. Exciting work is on the horizon. 🤩

📅 On 21 November, the EGMP Data Centre had the opportunity to present our work at the meeting of stakeholders on Barnacle Goose management in Denmark. 👉 Find out more about the event on our website: egmp.aewa.info/news/detail/eg…

📚 #DidYouKnow that we share the peer-reviewed research relevant to the EGMP on our website? Explore the most recent findings in the "Peer-reviewed Publications" section: 👉 egmp.aewa.info/resources/peer… 📢 Have a publication you think should be added? Let us know!

🎉 We hope everyone is off to a great start in 2025! 🌟 As we eagerly look forward to everything this year will bring, let’s take a moment to celebrate all the memorable milestones of 2024 for EGMP. Check out our year’s highlights here: egmp.aewa.info/sites/default/…