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Résumé :
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The State Bird Monitoring programme in Poland covers most breeding species of birds of prey and owls. As part of the bigger State Environment Monitoring System, it is engaged in 16 different projects, aimed at individual species or groups of species, including raptors. State Bird Monitoring is conducted by three organisations, the Eagle Conservation Committee (KOO), Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP) and Owls Protection Society, coordinated by the Institute and Museum of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences on request by the General Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (GIOS). Two monitoring models are used, one based on sampling of populations (of widespread and common species), while the other covers a complete (or near complete) census of rare species. The data are publicly available in Polish. Apart from the State Bird Monitoring, there are numerous professional organisations, NGO's and individuals engaged in conservation and study of birds of prey, although none of them within the framework of a true monitoring system. Apart from the protection guaranteed by Polish law, nests of rarest species, including birds of prey, are protected by special protection zones excluded from forest management. Currently, there are ca. 2,900 zones covering ca. 1,500 km(2) in total.
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