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Ramsar designation is: Seychelles Lacking in 14 IBAs Location of Important Bird Areas that contain areas which qualify as Ramsar Sites in Seychelles Designation progress Areas within 14 Important Bird Areas qualify currently as has been designated as yet. Ramsar Sites in the Republic of Seychelles, of which none Summary of Important Bird Areas that contain areas which qualify as Ramsar Sites in Seychelles IBA code IBA name IBA area (ha) Ramsar Site name Ramsar Site area (ha) Ramsar criteria 24 5 6 Ramsar designation of IBA lacking (14 IBAs) SC001 Bird Island 101 GGG SC002 Aride island 173 GGG SC004 Cousin island 132 GGG SC005 Cousine island 26 GGG SC006 La Digue island 1,010 G SC008 Frégate island 219 GG SC012 African Banks 750 GGG SC014 Etoile island 1 GG SC015 Boudeuse island – GG Important Bird Areas and potential Ramsar Sites in Africa (2002) 107 IBA code IBA name IBA area (ha) Ramsar Site name Ramsar Site area (ha) Ramsar criteria 24 5 6 SC016 Marie Louise island 52 GGG SC017 Desnoeufs island 35 GGG SC018 Islets of Farquhar atoll 17,825 GGG SC019 Cosmoledo atoll 14,960 GGG SC020 Aldabra atoll 33,180 GGGG Grand total 2 13 10 13 For the full details of each site, including bird populations, see Fishpool and Evans (2001) and the Data Zone at www.birdlife.net by 2003. See ‘Identifying potential Ramsar Sites’ (p.11) for a description of the site- and species-selection procedure and the method for evaluating adequacy of Ramsar coverage that have been used in this report. Threatened species Within the two IBAs that contain areas that qualify as Ramsar Sites under Criterion 2, three wetland-dependent species of global conservation concern occur regularly in significant numbers. Summary of the occurrence of wetland species of global conservation concern within the selected IBAs Species name and global threat status (IUCN 2000; see p.147) Madagascar Seychelles Swiftlet Seychelles IBA Pond-heron Collocalia elaphra Paradise-flycatcher code Ardeola idae (VU) Terpsiphone corvina Grand total (VU) (CR) SC006 GG2 SC020 G 1 Grand total 1113 108 Important Bird Areas and potential Ramsar Sites in Africa (2002).

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