Poland - Strategy planning services for the management or conservation of natural resources

Description

Expertise for the needs of additional inventory in the Natura 2000 area Oravsko-Nowotarskie Peatbogs PLH120016 (malacological expertise).1. Studies for the needs of expert opinions should be carried out on the basis of guidelines defined in the guides of the State Environmental Monitoring of the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (PMŚ GIOŚ), dedicated to the coarse shell pit and guidelines included in the Order Description, Appendix to the Terms of Reference.2.The Contractor is obliged to carry out field research in order to find the places of occurrence of the species in the indicated streams.3. All places where individuals of this species are found in the examined area should be registered by means of a GPS receiver.4. In representative places where individuals of the jay are found, the Contractor shall designate research stands, in accordance with the methodology indicated in the following section: K. Hare. 2010 Unio crassus coarse shell mussel. In: Makomaska-Juchiewicz M. (ed.) 2010. Monitoring of animal species. Methodological guide. Part I, p. 157-179. GIOŚ. Warsaw 2010 (with later modifications). The start and end point of each research station should be determined by means of a GPS receiver.5 On each research station, the Contractor will make a description in the species observation card on the stand, in accordance with the specimen provided in the methodological manual of the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (PMŚ GIOŚ). The subject of the contract is to supplement the knowledge on the occurrence of the capercaillie Tetrao urogallus in the Natura 2000 area Oravsko-Nowotarskie Peatbogs PLB120007.The Contractor, on the selected areas (indicated in the map appendix, constituting appendix no. 2 to the OPZ and submitted by the Contracting Authority in the form of vector layers), will carry out a field inventory in order to find capercaillie specimens or traces of their existence.3.Field inspections: a) Field inspections should be carried out on the basis of the methodology indicated in the publication Zawadzka et al. 2015 Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus. In: Chylarecki P., Sikora A., Cenian Z., Chodkiewicz T. (ed.), Monitoring of breeding birds. Methodological guide. Wydanie 2. GIOŚ, Warsaw, p. 145-153, in chapter: Techniki kontroli terenowej. Method B. Inspection of traces of birds (as far as mountain areas are concerned).b) The Contractor shall carry out at least 3 inspections, including 2 inspections by the end of April, during the period of snow cover accumulation, preferably one day-to-two days after reoccupation and one inspection in May.(c) Checks should be carried out during daylight hours, with good visibility and good weather conditions (no heavy rainfall, strong wind) limiting the daily activity of the birds.d) Searches should be carried out with a minimum of three persons moving ('back and forth') on the selected parts in parallel, in strips of a width that allows visual contact between individual observers. Special attention should be paid to biotope fragments preferred by capercaillie (described in the above publication) and special elements occurring in the field (blueberry patches exposed from snow, root roots of uprooted trees, so called "accommodation trees", etc.). e) The contractor will document the route of the crossing during all field inspections Using the GPS track (recording the track at least every 1 minute or every max 50 m) - each person from the team should have a GPS receiver.Further information and a detailed description of the contract is provided in Appendix No. 1 to the ToR Execution of an expert opinion for the needs of supplementing the state of knowledge for the objects of protection in the Natura 2000 Policy PLB120006 area (ornithological expertise).1. The subject of the contract is to supplement the knowledge on the occurrence of the Glaucidium passerinum owl and Turdus torquatus bypass roadway in the Natura 2000 Policy area PLB120006.2. The research area covers the entire Natura 2000 Policy area PLB120006 with particular emphasis on the sites of claims of species covered by the contract resulting from the monitoring carried out in 2018. Further information and a detailed description of the contract can be found in Appendix No. 1 to the ToR.

Opportunity closing date

13 March 2019

Value of contract

to be confirmed