Scottish Government

July 2005
ISBN 0 7559 2635 8

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CONTENTS

Response by the Scottish Executive to the National Goose Management Review Group Report
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Population Viability Analyses ( PVA) and review of populations of geese wintering and breeding in Scotland
Section 3: Legal status licensing, compliance monitoring
Section 4: Local goose management schemes
Section 5: National policy framework - funding
Section 6: National policy framework - national structures and general principles
Annexes:
Annex 1: Membership list of the NGMRG, GSAG and local scheme sub-group
Annex 2: Recommendations for the future of the national policy Framework and of local goose management schemes
Annex 3: Scientific research and monitoring Index
3.1 Overview of the goose Population Viability Analyses ¹
3.2 AEWA classifications and status of Scottish goose populations
3.3 Status and monitoring of goose populations in Scotland, including recommendations for future research, survey and monitoring work
3.4 Population sizes and trends for the main breeding and wintering populations of geese occurring in Scotland
3.5 Monitoring of aspects of Scottish goose populations: the adequacy of current monitoring and need for improvements over the next five years
3.6 Goose research, survey and monitoring needs: draft prioritised project list
Annex 4: Licences issued by SEERAD to take or kill geese to prevent serious agricultural damage 2000-05
Annex 5: Report of the local schemes sub-group (published separately)
Annex 6: An evaluation of the value for money of the Winter local goose Management groups
Annex 7: Original NGF recommendations