Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Life Sciences Standing Scientific Group?s Group of Expert on Birds, minutes of meeting, 18?22 July 2004, ?T Horntje, Texel, Netherlands

CRAWFORD RMJ, W DINTER, S EMSLIE, M FAVERO, WR FRASER, F HERTEL, P HODUM, P JUVENTIN, S OLMASTRONI, S PONCET, CA RIBIC & M RITZ

Marine Ornithology

African Seabird Group

Lugar: Cape Town; Año: 2004 vol. 32 p. 195 - 202

1018-3337

Developments with the Antarctic Protected Areas System arising from the last two Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCMs) and the associated Committee on Environmental Protection (CEP) were briefly reported, including the declaration of new Antarctic Specially Protected Areas and the development and adoption of management plans for several of them. Given the continued involvement of SCAR?GEB with the production of an Important Bird Areas (IBA) inventory for the Antarctic Continent (see subsection 4.10), it was agreed that relevant deliberations and decisions of the CEP and the ATCMs needed to be followed with more attention than hitherto by the group?s predecessors, so as to lend support to improving the conservation status of birds and their habitats on the continent through the SCAR Standing Committeeon the Antarctic Treaty System.