Ramsar designation is: French Southern Territories Lacking in 17 IBAs

Location of Important Bird Areas that contain areas which qualify as Ramsar Sites in French Southern Territories

Designation progress Areas within 17 Important Bird Areas qualify currently as has been designated as yet. Ramsar Sites in French Southern Territories, of which none

Summary of Important Bird Areas that contain areas which qualify as Ramsar Sites in French Southern Territories

IBA code IBA name IBA area (ha) Ramsar Site name Ramsar Site area (ha) Ramsar criteria 24 5 6 Ramsar designation of IBA lacking (17 IBAs) TF001 Île de la Possession 14,600 TF002 Île de l'Est 13,000 TF003 6,600 TF004 Îles des Apôtres 800 TF005 Île des Pingouins 400 TF006 Plateau des Tourbières 800 TF007 Falaises d'Entrecasteaux 360 TF008 Île Saint Paul 800 TF009 Péninsule Courbet 60,000 TF010 Islands of the Golfe du Morbihan 28,000 TF011 Southern coast of Péninsule 12,000 Jeanne d'Arc TF012 Baie Larose 2,000

58 Important Bird Areas and potential Ramsar Sites in Africa (2002) IBA code IBA name IBA area (ha) Ramsar Site name Ramsar Site area (ha) Ramsar criteria 24 5 6

TF013 Péninsule Rallier du Baty 27,000 TF014 Îles Nuageuses and Île Clugny 24,000 TF015 Northern part of Péninsule 6,000 Loranchet TF016 Îles Leygues 2,400 TF017 Île Foch, Île Sainte Lanne 48,000 Gramont and Île Howe Grand total 17 16 15 16

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 17 IBAs that contain areas that qualify as Ramsar Sites under Criterion 2, 15 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) CR) (VU) (LR/nt) (VU) (VU) (VU) (LR/nt) (VU) (VU) (LR/nt) (LR/nt) (LR/nt) (VU) (LR/nt) (VU) andering Albatross

IBA Gentoo Pygoscelis papua Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes chrysocome Eudyptes chrysolophus W Diomedea exulans Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis ( Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma Albatross Indian Yellow-nosed Thalassarche carteri Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata Northern Giant-petrel Macronectes halli White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea Eaton's Pintail Anas eatoni Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata Grand total code TF001 9 TF002 12 TF003 6 TF004 8 TF005 7 TF006 1 TF007 2 TF008 1 TF009 6 TF010 3 TF011 2 TF012 3 TF013 5 TF014 7 TF015 3 TF016 2 TF017 4 Grand 64910165372121221181 total

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