1. Invasive Alien Species
Working Group 3 – Eradication, containment, management and restoration
Tasks and issues
30 March 2011

2. Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Introduction
Aim of the working group:
to provide advice and expertise to the Commission
to formulate opinions and recommendations
Aim of the scoping document:
Frame the discussion, outline areas where expertise sought
Scoping document based on:
3 September stakeholder feedback + written input from stakeholders
study Shine et al. (2010)

3. Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Tasks
3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
3.2 – Restoration
3.3 – Financing
3.4 – Communication and awareness raising
Horizontal questions
Collate expertise
Define responsibilities 3

4. Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Objective?
Eradication
When eradication is not possible
Containment
Management = reduce damage to
IAS, habitats, ecosystems and ecosystem services
human or animal health
the economic sectors and activities
Examples
E.g. Australia: focus on environmentally threatening processes
Link to threatened species
E.g. UK: spontaneous focus on Japanese knotweed 4

5. Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Defining responsibilities: three possible approaches
Option 1: Eradication is the rule, MS need to apply for derogation
Option 2: MS to decide on measures, endorsement by EU and other MS
Option 3: MS to decide on measures
Establishment of a cut off date for the eradication requirement?
Option 1: Entry into force of the system
Option 2: Listing of the IAS (cf. WG 1) 5

6. Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Factors to be considered when selecting the measures
Invasion speed, invasion stage, recipient environment
Damage to biodiversity, environment, public health, economy
Cost, feasibility and effectiveness of the available measures
Public acceptability of the available measures
Option 1: Humane treatment of animals in any case (e.g. anticoagulants under no conditions)
Option 2: Humane treatment of animals as far as possible (e.g. anticoagulants to eradicate mammal IAS on islands)
Negative side-effects to non-target species, ecosystems, environment, public health, economy
What about measures exploiting certain positive characteristics of IAS
Managing of Robinia, rainbow trout,… to acceptable levels
Eradicating grey squirrels, Canada geese,… by consuming them 6

7. Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.1 – Eradication, containment and management
How to organise indicators, monitoring and reporting (cf. WG 2)? 7

8. Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.2 – Restoration
Objective?
Favourable conservation status of species/habitats of EU concern
Good ecological status
Good environmental status
Baseline condition
Others?
Integration in existing management plans? 8

9. Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.3 – Financing
Who should pay for eradication, containment, management and restoration actions?
Making sectors collectively responsible?
Eligibility for EU funding? Under which conditions? 9

10. Task 3.4 – Communication and awareness rising
Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Task 3.4 – Communication and awareness rising
Knowledge on eradication, containment, management and restoration measures:
How to ensure current state of knowledge reaches MS and managers on the ground?
How to ensure experiences from MS and managers on the ground reach the EU-level?
Public support for eradication, containment, management and restoration measures:
How to deal with public reluctance against eradication measures?
Public consultation to be embedded in eradication, containment and management plans?
Under which conditions and at what stage? 10

11. Scoping document on eradication, containment, management and restoration
Tasks
Who wants to be the task leader? The back-up task leader?
3.1 – Eradication, Containment and Management
3.2 – Restoration
3.3 – Financing
3.4 – Communication and awareness raising
Expected output
report with recommendations
report to be publicly available on CIRCA 11

12. Task group leaders and back-ups
TASK 3.1: Eradication, Containment and Management
Task leader: Peter Robertson - FERA
Piero Genovesi –IUCN ISSG
Staci McLennan – Eurogroup for animals
Paul Walton - Birdlife
TASK 3.2: Restoration
Task leader: (Jonathan Newman CEH– holding reply) …
TASK 3.3:
Looking for volunteers (documents on CIRCA to jump start discussion)
TASK 3.4: Communication and awareness raising
Task leader: Huw Thomas – DEFRA
Dick Shaw – CABI
Sander Smolder – Dutch ministry of economic affairs, agriculture and innovation 12