Important Bird Areas: Towards Implement Aichi Targets 11
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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 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 Analysis unprotected sites. Important Bird Areas contain significant populations of particular bird species that trigger their identification, and the IBA network Importance for birds ranked on a scale of 1-4 incorporates the existing Protected Areas network. In this analysis, IBAs have been used to obtain a better picture of where the important Rapid assessment of threats with scores ranked on a scale of 1-4 where; 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 1 - Site faces few immediate threats, threat level will not increase greatly if there is no intervention within next three years greatest importance for bird conservation, and thus are priorities for conservation, protection or further investigation. 2 - Site faces moderate immediate threat, and/or likelihood of substantially increased threat level if there is no intervention within The poster identifies national IBA priorities for action by assessing and ranking both threat and bird importance. For the set of IBAs that next three years are top priorities for action, appropriate broad-brush responses to the significant threats have been identified: this may show to what 3 - Site faces substantial immediate threat, and/or likelihood of critical threat levels if there is no intervention within next three years extent better legal protection may be useful in ensuring IBA conservation. 4 - Site is critically threatened and immediate intervention is essential The single most appropriate and important broad response proposed include(Table 1); (a) Improved management of an existing Protected Area, primarily within: Calculation of an “urgency score” for each site, by simply multiplying the ranks for ‘biological value’ and ‘threat’ which gives an (a1) or primarily outside (a2) its boundaries. indication of the likely severity of loss if conservation interventions are not undertaken soon (Table 1 & 2). (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 Results show three IBAs requiring conservation approach A1, four response A2 and four response C ( see map, Figure 1, Table 1 & 2). restrictive Protected Area designation. 31° 33° 35° IBAs with high urgency scores and proposed responses 4 ° ° 4 N Mt. Otzi Forest Reserve %U Kidepo AD JU M A N I National Park Mt. Kei Forest Reserve KIT GU M %U LOCATION OF UGANDA IN AFRICA AR U A KO T ID O %U %U GU L U Ajai Wildlife %U Reserve Murchison Falls M OR O T%UO Natural wetland in Mabamba Bay %U National Park N EB BI le Ni Uganda rt b e LIR A A l Moroto %U Forest Reserve 2 ° ° Fig. 1 Proposed responses for a set of IBAs 2 a1 T R SO R OT I E %U a2 M AS IN D I B %U Lake L Opeta A Lake Budongo b Bisina E Forest K Reserve Mt. Elgon %U L A K E K Y O G A A National c H OIM A L Park t r e Effective conservation approach conservation Effective 0 1 2 3 4 5 b l A Lake Number of sites e Lake Kyoga Nakuwa k M BA LE%U a 4 3 2 1 Semliki L e l National i %U N KAM U LI Table 1 Biodiversity importance Vs Threat in IBAs LU W ER O a Park i %U r Doho Rice Semliki Wildlife and o 4 t c Communal Reserve i Scheme V %U 3 BIODIVERSITY VALUE c %U Mabira TO R O R O FO R T %U PO R T AL %U Forest BU G IR I Conservation responses M U BE N D E Reserve %U IG AN G A 2 A1 JIN JA %U %U to critical sites T Rwenzori BU S IA C Mountains Kibale %U 1 A2 KAM PAL A H %U M U KO N O National National A1 Park Park M PIGI R %U Other IBAS KAS ES E Lutembe E %U Bay A2 A Mabamba %U 0 ° Bay ° T 0 EN T EB BE %U Town International Boundary Kyambura Wildlife Open water V Reserve Ssese Island M AS AKA (Lutoboko) A %U Other IBAs Queen L Elizabeth Lake Mburo National Park U National Nabugabo Fully IUCN protected areas, but severely threatened Park Wetland E %U M BA R AR A Ajai Wildlife Reserve: Poaching, insurgency (rebel) Bwindi Impenetrable Sango bay Musambwa L A K E V I C T O R I A National Park Forest Islands Mount Elgon National park: Encroachment for cultivation Complex Semliki communal and wildlife reserves: overgrazing and prospective oil mining. Nyamuriro Swamp 20 0 20 40 Kilometers %U %U KAB AL E Unprotected but less threatened sites Mgahinga National Echuya Park Forest Lake Nakuwa: inaccessible habitat, low population density Reserve 31° 33° 35° Mabamba Bay: community conservation, inaccessibility Table 2 Analysis of urgency score IBA info Scores for bird importance Protection status A1 A2 A3 A4(a) A4(b) A4(mean) scores Total Rank (biodivesrity) birds for Importance statusThreatscore scoreurgency effective Most conserv approach law national status by Protection IUCN Other IUCN+Other+None Other+None None IUCN Non-IUCN) (Statutory Other (Non-Statutory) Other Unprotected site of partany of recognition legal Highest importance bird sites for c.33% of Top urgency sites c.33%for of Top IBA Name Sitecode 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 Converted drained wetland Together for birds and people Progress towards Target 11 IBA Protection Index 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 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 [email protected] .