The Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus) is a long-distance Palearctic migrant ranked as globally threatened and ‘vulnerable’ by the IUCN. Lesser White-fronted Geese (LWfG) breed discontinuously in the sub-arctic zone from northern Fennoscandia to eastern Siberia. Little is currently known about their wintering and staging areas, nor their migration routes, and a rapid decline in the global population of LWfG has led to fragmentation of the breeding range. One of the main threats to LWfG has been identified as hunting, and hunting pressure is particularly severe at staging and wintering sites along the eastern migration route through central Asia. Our project aims to elucidate the motives for illegal LWfG hunting in this region.

Where?

Kazakhstan.

What species?

Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus)

People

Isabel Jones (University of Stirling)

Nils Bunnefeld (University of Stirling)

UN-AEWA and the Association for Biodiversity Conservation in Kazakhstan (ACBK)