The main task of the project is to develop concepts for assessment of conservation status of marine biodiversity, including species and habitats and impacts of various human activities. The project shall develop innovative monitoring and assessment approach based on joint set of marine biodiversity indicators as well as to test in practice the monitoring and assessment techniques. The project is acting in the Baltic Sea in territorial waters and EEZ of Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Sweden. It is aiming at applying a regional approach for future marine biodiversity monitoring and cross country co-operation when assessing marine biodiversity in the Baltic Sea.

Latvian Fund for Nature will coordinate collection and analysis of bird data, efficiency comparison of different bird monitoring methods as well as development of bird related indicators. LFN is leading the project activity “Demonstration of biodiversity assessment“ and co-leading the activity “Testing of new indicator set and monitoring methods“.

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