The Rome Strategic Plan

The Rome Strategic Plan 2020-2030: Eradicating Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade in Wild Birds in Europe and the Mediterranean region is the strategic framework for the work of MIKT from 2020-2030.

It was developed during a Joint Meeting of the Bern Convention Network of Special Focal Points (SFPs) on Eradication of Illegal Killing, Trapping and Trade (IKB) in Wild Birds and the CMS MIKT in May 2019 in Rome.

The overarching long-term goal of the Rome Strategic Plan is the eradication of IKB within the geographic scope of the Bern Convention and MIKT. The goal of the Rome Strategic Plan for 2030 is a 50% reduction of the scale and scope of IKB compared to a 2020 baseline.

MIKT members adopted the Rome Strategic Plan as it was adopted by the Bern Convention Standing Committee in December 2019, with the clear understanding that a detailed and ambitious workplan would be developed for specific actions to be implemented by MIKT Members and Observers in the Mediterranean.

The Rome Strategic Plan, was developed as a continuation of the MIKT Programme of Work 2016-2020 which ended in 2020. The MIKT Workplan for the period 2021-2025 is fully aligned with the Rome Strategic Plan and was approved through online consultation following the MIKT meeting in June 2021.

MIKT members and Bern Convention Network of Special Focal Points on IKB, periodically use the Scoreboard to self-assess their progress on combating IKB. The Scoreboard was developed in 2017 but has been slightly adapted to be in line with the Rome Strategic Plan too. 

The Rome Strategic Plan is structured around one process-oriented objective and five result-oriented objectives, which are:

Process Oriented objective: National IKB Action Plans

Result Oriented objectives:   

No. 1: To understand the scope, scale and motivations behind illegal killing, taking and trade of birds;

No. 2: To establish an active prevention of the illegal killing, taking and trade of birds;

No. 3: To ensure that the illegal killing of birds is addressed effectively and efficiently in national legislation;

No. 4: To ensure that effective and efficient enforcement of relevant legislation is undertaken;

No. 5: To ensure effective and efficient justice for IKB-related offences.

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Studies / Publications

• The Killing
  The BirdLife Partnership presents this review based on the first ever comprehensive scientific study to quantify the scale and scope of illegal killing across the Mediterranean region. The results are gruesome. Despite legal protection, illegal bird killing is taking place at quite extraordinary and unsustainable levels. While many turn a blind eye, an estimated 25 million birds are being illegally massacred annually.
• Illegal Use of Poisoned-baits. Legal Analysis and Investigation
• Legal Recommendations to eliminate illegal killing and taking of birds 
  This document provides recommendations from the experts attending the I European Workshop on Environmental Crime focused on illegal killing and taking of birds. This workshop was held in Madrid on 11th February 2015 under the project for the creation of a European Network against Environmental Crime (ENEC) coordinated by SEO/BirdLife and the RSPB and funded by the Criminal Justice Support Programme of the European Union.
• Preliminary assessment of the scope and scale of illegal killing and taking of birds in the Mediterranean.
  Bird Conservation International / Volume 26 / Issue 01 / mars 2016, pp 1-28
• Study on the implementation of Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law
• ICCWC Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit [English] / [French] / [Spanish]

Resources

• The Massacre of Europe's Songbirds [Newsweek]
• The Balkans Bird Mafia [Birdlife]
• Bird Trapping in Egypt and Libya – Plan of Action Put in Place
• International Coordination Meeting Agrees on a Plan of Action to Address the Issue of Bird Trapping Along the Mediterranean Coasts of Egypt and Libya
• Bird Trapping in Egypt and Libya - Background, Methods, Scale and Legal Status of Bird Trapping

Media Coverage

Title	Language	Date	Source
Joint Meeting on Eradication of Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade in Wild Birds	English	10/05/2019	coe.int
Cooperamos en la lucha internacional contra la caza ilegal de aves	Spanish	09/05/2019	seo.org
Allarme sul bracconaggio degli uccelli: moltissime le specie a rischio estinzione	Italian	08/05/2019	secoloditalia.it
New Strategy to Eradicate Bird Crime in Europe and the Mediterranean	English	14/05/2019	cms.int
Bracconaggio degli uccelli, 25 Paesi uniti per contrastarlo	Italian	08/05/2019	ansa.it
Italia in prima linea contro il bracconaggio, a Castelporziano conferenza internazionale	Italian	08/05/2019	minambiente.int
Prosecutors, Workshop Strengthens Fight against Illegal Killing of Birds in the Mediterranean	English	14/04/2018	CMS.int
Task Force adopts zero-tolerance approach to curb annual slaughter in the Mediterranean	English	19/07/2016	Birdguides.com
Countries to meet in Egypt to end killing of migratory birds	English	09/07/2016	Ahramonline
Africa: Task Force Agrees Need for Tougher Penalties, Adopts Zero Tolerance Approach to Curb Annual Slaughter of 25 Million Birds in the Mediterranean	English	14/07/2016	Allafrica.com
Task Force Agrees Need for Tougher Penalties, Adopts Zero Tolerance Approach to Curb Annual Slaughter of 25 Million Birds in the Mediterranean	English	14/07/2016	UNEP News Center
New UN task force to fight migratory bird hunting	English	15/07/2016	Deutsche Welle
Task force Unep: tolleranza zero contro la strage di 25 milioni di uccelli all’anno nel Mediterraneo	Italian	18/07/2016	Greenport.it
Wie kann der millionenfache Vogelfang im Mittelmeerraum gestoppt werden?	German	09/07/2016	Scharf Links
Wie kann der millionenfache Vogelfang im Mittelmeerraum gestoppt werden?	German	13/07/2016	ichtragenatur.de
بالتعاون مع الأمم المتحدة.. "البيئة" تصدر "إعلان القاهرة" لمكافحة صيد الطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	14/07/2016	Treckat.com
البيئة توضح بنود ''إعلان القاهرة'' الخاص بمكافحة صيد الطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	15/07/2016	Masrawy
البيئة تختتم فعاليات اجتماع مكافحة الصيد غير المشروع للطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	15/07/2016	Youm 7
اليوم.. ختام اجتماع فريق عمل الصيد "غير القانوني" للطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	15/07/2016	Al Bawaba
الطيور المهاجرة إلى مصر.. «البيئة»: غير حاملة للأمراض.. تأتي في سبتمبر ونوفمبر.. رصد 30 نوعا مهددا بالانقراض.. تتواجد في جنوب سيناء وعلى سواحل البحر المتوسط.. ومطالب بسن تشريعات لمنع الصيد العشوائي	Arabic	15/07/2016	Vetogate
الوطن" تنشر بنود "إعلان القاهرة" لمكافحة صيد الطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	14/07/2016	El Watan
ننشر توصيات «مقترح إعلان القاهرة» لمكافحة الصيد غير الشرعي للطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	14/07/2016	Al Akhbar
اخبار السياسه بالتعاون مع الأمم المتحدة.. "البيئة" تصدر "إعلان القاهرة" لمكافحة صيد الطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	14/07/2016	Mogaz News
إطلاق إعلان القاهرة المتعلق بالصيد غير القانونى وتجارة الطيور المهاجرة فى المتوسط	Arabic	15/07/2016	El Watan
حملة لحماية الطيور المهاجرة من شباك الصيادين	Arabic	16/07/2016	Al Akhbar
البيئة تختتم فعاليات اجتماع مكافحة الصيد غير المشروع للطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	15/07/2016	Loma Zoma
مصر تستضيف اجتماع فريق عمل الصيد غير القانوني للطيور المهاجر	Arabic	12/07/2016	Al Bawaba
مصر تستضيف الاجتماع الأول عن صيد الطيور المهاجرة في منطقة دول حوض المتوسط	Arabic	12/07/2016	Masrawy
وزير البيئة: مصر ملتزمة باتفاقية الحفاظ على الطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	12/07/2016	Vetogate
وزير البيئة: نلتزم باتفاقية الحفاظ على الأنواع المهاجرة ضد الصيد غير المشروع	Arabic	12/07/2016	Innfrad
فهمي”: مصر ملتزمة بإتفاقية الحفاظ على انواع الطيور المهاجرة	Arabic	12/07/2016	Al Sahm
فهمي": مصر ملتزمة باتفاقية الحفاظ على الأنواع المهاجرة	Arabic	12/07/2016	El Fagr
وزير البيئة: مصر ملتزمة باتفاقية الحفاظ على الأنواع المهاجرة	Arabic	12/07/2016	Al Nabaa
وزير البيئة يشدد على أهمية اقتصاديات عمليات الصيد	Arabic	12/07/2016	Al Arabya News

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