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Important Bird Areas: Towards Implement Aichi Targets 11
CBD workshop, Livingstone Zambia
Meeting Aichi Target 11
• A key element of Aichi Target 11 is the call to increase the coverage of P.A
• Areas of biologically significant should be a priority when expanding P.A coverage
• How can the key sites be identified? ‘Key Biodiversity Areas’ – sites of global significance for biodiversity conservation.
Meeting Aichi Target 11
• KBA identify the most important sites for biodiversity within a country or region
• KBA are identified using globally standardized criteria
• Inform the selection of sites for protection under national legislation
www.ibat-alliance.org/ibat-conservation
Meeting Aichi Target 11
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas(IBAs) – are KBAs identified using information on birds Over 12, 000 IBAs have been identified, Mapped and documented by BirdLife International Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas www.birdlife.org/datazone
Marine IBAs: the marine e-atlas
3000 sites in 150 countries and on high seas – 6.5% of the oceans
IBAs are a basis for PA gap analysis
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Murchison Falls National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Kidepo National Park
Lake Opeta
Mt. Elgon National Park
Budongo Forest Reserve
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Kibale National Park
Moroto Forest Reserve
Sango bay Forest Complex
Mt. Kei Forest Reserve
Semliki Wildlife and Communal Reserve
Mabira Forest Reserve
Lake Mburo National Park Nabugabo
Wetland
Lake Nakuwa
Semliki National Park
Mabamba Bay
Mt. Otzi Forest Reserve
Ajai Wildlife Reserve
Kyambura Wildlife Reserve
Lake Bisina
Nyamuriro Swamp
Ssese Island (Lutoboko)
Doho Rice Scheme
Echuya Forest Reserve
Lutembe Bay
Mgahinga National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Musambwa Islands
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Conservation responses
to critical sites
PROTECTED AREA GAPS FOR UGANDA’S IBAS by Achilles Byaruhanga c/o NatureUganda, P. O. Box 27037, Kampala e-mail: [email protected]
Uganda has 30 Important Bird Areas IBAs). 10 of the IBAs are national parks, 3 are wildlife reserves, 8 are forest reserves and 9 unprotected sites.
Important Bird Areas contain significant populations of particular bird species that trigger their identification, and the IBA network incorporates the existing Protected Areas network. In this analysis, IBAs have been used to obtain a better picture of where the important gaps really are in coverage for particular bird species. The analysis also shows which of the IBAs that are as yet unprotected are of the greatest importance for bird conservation, and thus are priorities for conservation, protection or further investigation.
The poster identifies national IBA priorities for action by assessing and ranking both threat and bird importance. For the set of IBAs that are top priorities for action, appropriate broad-brush responses to the significant threats have been identified: this may show to what extent better legal protection may be useful in ensuring IBA conservation.
The single most appropriate and important broad response proposed include(Table 1);
(a) Improved management of an existing Protected Area, primarily within: (a1) or primarily outside (a2) its boundaries. (b) Upgrading a legally recognised or unprotected area to Protected Area status. (c) Other measures (such as community management for sustainable use, landscape-level planning and linkages) that do not involve
restrictive Protected Area designation.
Analysis Importance for birds ranked on a scale of 1-4
Rapid assessment of threats with scores ranked on a scale of 1-4 where;
1 - Site faces few immediate threats, threat level will not increase greatly if there is no intervention within next three years
2 - Site faces moderate immediate threat, and/or likelihood of substantially increased threat level if there is no intervention within next three years
3 - Site faces substantial immediate threat, and/or likelihood of critical threat levels if there is no intervention within next three years
4 - Site is critically threatened and immediate intervention is essential
Calculation of an “urgency score” for each site, by simply multiplying the ranks for ‘biological value’ and ‘threat’ which gives an indication of the likely severity of loss if conservation interventions are not undertaken soon (Table 1 & 2).
Results show three IBAs requiring conservation approach A1, four response A2 and four response C ( see map, Figure 1, Table 1 & 2).
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Fully IUCN protected areas, but severely threatened
Ajai Wildlife Reserve: Poaching, insurgency (rebel)
Mount Elgon National park: Encroachment for cultivation
Semliki communal and wildlife reserves: overgrazing and prospective oil mining.
Unprotected but less threatened sites
Lake Nakuwa: inaccessible habitat, low population density
Mabamba Bay: community conservation, inaccessibility
Together for birds and people
Natural wetland in Mabamba Bay
Converted drained wetland
IBAs with high urgency scores and proposed responses
Table 1 Biodiversity importance Vs Threat in IBAs
Fig. 1 Proposed responses for a set of IBAs
Table 2 Analysis of urgency score
IBA Name Site
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Lutembe Bay UG018 1 3 4 3 3.5 7.5 4 4 16 c Unprotected x x Unprotected y x
Nyamuriro swamp UG003 1 4 5 3 4 12 c Unprotected x x Unprotected x
Doho Rice Scheme UG024 1 2 1 3 2 5 3 4 12 c Unprotected x x Unprotected x
Lake Bisina UG026 1 1 3 5 3 3 9 c Unprotected x x Unprotected x
Echuya Forest Reserve UG002 2 4 2 8 4 3 12 a2 Forest Reserve x x x Other y x
Mount Elgon NP UG028 2 3 5 3 3 9 a2 NP x x IUCN x
Mgahinga Gorilla NP UG001 4 4 2 10 4 2 8 a2 NP x x IUCN y x
Semliki NP UG009 4 2 4 10 4 2 8 a2 NP x x IUCN y x
Mount Moroto Forest Reserve UG029 1 1 4 6 3 3 9 a1 Forest Reserve x x Other y x
Queen Elizabeth NP and L. George UG007 4 4 2 3 2.5 10.5 4 2 8 a1 NP x x x x IUCN y x
IBA info Scores for bird importance Protection status
Progress towards Target 11
Protection of all terrestrial IBAs and AZE plus existing PAs would result in 17.5% of land surface being protected and c. 7.2% of the oceans
IBA Protection Index
Meeting Aichi Targets 11
• Country profiles www.birdlife.org/datazone/country
Meeting Aichi Targets 11
Other BirdLife information… • Developing and implementing
NBSAPs
• State of the World’s Birds
• State of Africa’s Bird’s
www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb/CBDsupport
Thank you Olivia Adhiambo