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LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: INVENTORY OF IMPORTANT SITES
Priority Needs List and Tools Matrix
I. Lack of Knowledge
b. Inventory of Important Sites
- Alliance for Zero Extinction, a project involving 16 conservation
NGOs. AZE covers all terrestrial taxa, but emphasizes birds listed
on the IUCN RedList as Critically Endangered or Endangered, and occurring
nearly entirely at single sites, loss of which would almost surely
result in extinction. A preliminary list includes about 90 AZE sites
for birds in this Hemisphere, with concentrations in Mexico, the Caribbean,
northern and central Andes, and the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Each
site is currently being analyzed for status, threats, and needs, and
active conservation programs are underway for many of them.
- AZE staff act as database coordinators for Western Hemisphere data
for all taxa.
From: American Bird Conservancy, www.abcbirds.org.
Contact: David Pashley, dpashley@abcbirds.org.
- Assistance in developing bat inventory guidelines and partnerships
for inventory projects.
From: Bat Conservation International, www.batcon.org.
Contact: jkennedy@batcon.org
- Important Bird Areas (IBA) for the Americas are sites of international
importance for the conservation of birds at the global, regional or
subregional scale, and are chosen using internationally standardized
criteria. One of the four criteria focuses on sites which hold significant
congregations of migratory species (contact: Angelica Estrada, Americas
IBA Program Manager, ehma@birdlife.org.ec, or Ian Davidson, Head of
the Americas, BirdLife International, davidson@birdlife.org.ec). At
the national level, the IBA program is undertaken by the national BirdLife
partner organization, or through cooperation with national governmental
agencies and NGOS. Some 1900 IBAs have been identified in Argentina,
Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama,
El Salvador, Mexico, Canada, USA, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bahamas,
Dominican Republic, the Falkland Islands, and Uruguay.
From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org.
Contact: Rob Clay, rob@guyra.org.py.
- Lists of preliminary sites of importance for the conservation of
biodiversity, established by the National Commission of the Environment
(CONAMA).
From: Chile - Servicio Agricola y Ganadero (SAG), www.sag.gob.cl.
Contact: www.conama.cl.
- Evaluation for the designation of six new Ramsar sites in Colombia.
From: Colombia - Direccion de Ecosistemas, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente.
Contact: María Rivera, mrivera@minambiente.gov.co or jrivera@impsat.net.co,
T: 0057 1 3323434 ext 411.
- Conservation Assessment and Management Plans (CAMPs) provide guidance
for information collection, species threat assessment, and management
planning, as well as a comprehensive means of conservation priority
setting and resource allocation.
From: Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (IUCN/SSC), www.cbsg.org.
Contact: Onnie Byers, onnie@cbsg.org.
- Guayas Proyecto Lagunas de Ecuasal Benito Hase
- Quito Eco-Science Wetlands Inventory Project is a database of Ecuador’s
wetlands and includes a participatory proposal for national policies
on wetlands, submitted to the Ministry of the Environment.
From: Ecuador - Unidad de Vida Silvestre y Ecosistemas Frágiles,
Dirección de
Biodiversidad y Areas Protegidas, Ministerio del Ambiente, www.ambiente.gov.ec.
Contact: Eduardo Briones, humedales@ecociencia.org, T: (593 2) 2231624.
- Inventories of sites used by marine turtles as nesting beaches and
feeding areas.
From: Inter-American Sea Turtle Convention, www.amnet.co.cr.
Contact: Marco Solano, citsecret@amnet.co.cr.
- Long-term baseline data on landbird migration and demographics from
Bird Conservation Region 6–Boreal Taiga Plains.
- Monitoring of Tundra Swan and Western Grebe in Lesser Slave Lake
Region Important Bird Area (IBA).
From: Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, http://www.lslbo.org/.
Contact: Dr. Richard Knapton, rknapton@telus.net, T: (780) 849-7117.
- Inventory techniques (used by The Nature Conservancy, IBA program,
U.S. Forest Service, and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory).
From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org.
Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov.
- Initiative for the protection of wild areas of Paraguay.
- Work in high-priority areas for the conservation of eco-regions
of global importance in Latin America.
From: Paraguay - Proyecto Paraguay Silvestre, http://www.paraguaysilvestre.org.py.
Contact: Cristina Morales, cmorales_py@yahoo.com.
- Inventory activities in two wetlands.
From: Peru - Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales (IRENA).
Contact: Dr. Cesar Alvarez Falcon, jefatura@inrena.gob.pe.
- Technical advice and support to a PhD study on shorebird use in
Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe and Estação Ecológica
do Taim (Brazil).
From: United States Fish and Wildlife Service- Alaska, http://alaska.fws.gov/.
Contact: Richard Lanctot, richard_lanctot@fws.gov.
- Habitat and population inventories for important biodiversity and
birds sites, using research scientists and site managers in protected
areas, endangered species habitats, and wildlife and fisheries emphasis
sites.
From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us.
Contact: Alex Moad, International Programs, T: 202-273-0163.
- Breeding Bird Atlas Data Management System, a survey method used
to identify areas with high diversity of breeding species or specialized
breeding communities.
From: United States Geological Survey - Patuxent Wildlife Research
Center, http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/.
Contact: Mark Wimer, T: (301) 497-5596.
- The book Important Shorebird Staging Sites Meeting WHSRN Criteria
in the United States (1996) presents critically important shorebird
sites.
- The book Estimates of Shorebird Populations in North America (2001)
presents information on the population sizes of 53 species of Nearctic
shorebirds. It is used for conservation planning and identifying areas
of international and regional importance (in partnership with the Canadian
Wildlife Service).
From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.
Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net.
- Neotropical Waterbird Census is a site-based waterbird census at
wetland sites (including sites in South America), conducted by volunteers
and country coordinators.
From: Wetlands International, www.wetlands.org.
Contact: Melanie Steinkamp, Melanie_Steinkamp@fws.gov.
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