Bird Conservation Strategy

Chile 2020 – 2030

Tomás Altamirano

April 2021

Contents

• Why is it important to work together on birdconservation?

• How are we elaborating the bird conservationstrategy in Chile?

• What are our conservation targets and action lines?

Why is it important?

• Most abundant terrestrial vertebrates (~ 10,500spp)

• Unique birds and ecosystems

(Rozzi et al. 1996)

2nd country with more globallythreatened seabirds

(NPOA Seabirds 2020)

How are we building the BirdConservation Strategy?

(CMP 2020)

Work team

1. Desert birds

2. Shorebirds

3. Birds of Oceanic Islands

4. Seabirds

5. Wetland birds

6. Forest birds

7. Alpine birds

8. Birds of the patagonian steppe

Conservation targets

Wildfires and climate change

Foto: Elke Schüttler

Alliances for conservation

Political and regulation framework

Fiscalization and control

Incentives for conservation

Finance for conservation

Management tools

Education for conservation

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Research and monitoring for conservation

Action guidelines

Main message

The Bird Conservation Strategy in Chile can be an opportunities to collaborate with Canada on

bird conservation.

We share many bird species, importantecosystems and different threats to birds

Thanks for yourattention!

taltamirano@mma.gob.clhttps://gefhumedales.mma.gob.cl