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In spite of considerable scientific progress since the middle of the 1990s and the combined efforts of a growing number of actors in France and Europe during the last decade, the European sturgeon still receives little attention from the general public and the elected officials in France. Despite the various national and international commitments, non-governmental organizations face the problem that the French authorities took action rather reluctantly up to the recent adoption of a National Action Plan. A survey of the steps taken since the end of the two LIFE programmes makes it possible to determine progress towards the international recognition of the species, and French commitment to the activities required.
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This chapter is derived from numerous WWF-France working documents and minutes of meetings that have not been published. A lot of people contributed to these documents, among whom the present author and: Cyrille Deshayes, Mohend Mahouche, Stéphane Ringuet, Benoît Guérin (WWF-France), Paul Gonthier, Eric Rochard, Patrick Williot (Cemagref), Olivier Guerri (EPIDOR), Jacqueline Rabic, Nicolas Michelet (French Fisheries Committee), Gilbert Miossec (ADES), Jean-Yves Ménella (Rhône-Migrateurs-Méditerranée), Hervé Lethier (EMC2-I), Joern Gessner, Frank Kirschbaum (IGB) and Harald Rosenthal (WSCS), who are gratefully recognized for their assistance.
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Moreau, D. (2011). How Non-governmental Stakeholders Have Contributed to the Conservation Programme in France. In: Williot, P., Rochard, E., Desse-Berset, N., Kirschbaum, F., Gessner, J. (eds) Biology and Conservation of the European SturgeonAcipenser sturioL. 1758. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20611-5_36
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