CMS PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE SITE NETWORK FOR WATERBIRDS IN THE AGREEMENT AREA, 1st EDITION
The purpose of the report is to provide the national administrative authorities of AEWA with a strategic overview of:
a) the knowledge of the extent and distribution of sites of international importance2 for and used by each of the species on the Agreement;
b) the extent to which these sites of international importance are statutorily or otherwise designated under relevant international processes;
c) the extent to which internationally important sites are subject to directed management for the purposes of the conservation of the waterbirds for which they are internationally important; a
d) instances where populations of waterbirds depend on key unprotected sites of importance, the loss of which would be of significance for the population concerned (for example unprotected ‘bottleneck’ sites, or unprotected sites in migration corridors of restricted geographical extent).