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Identifying
Priorities
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| Conservation
poses enormous challenges, yet resources are scarce. It is important
that we target these scarce resources on the species, sites and
habitats that need most urgent attention.
Kenya's
Important Bird Areas
Status
and Trends 2005 click
here |
 Birds
as Indicators
Setting
priorities is difficult because we have little information about
most of Kenya's biodiversity. Nature Kenya, with the rest of the
BirdLife International Partnership, has made a start on this process
using the best-known group of organisms -- birds. Birds are important
focus for conservation in their own right, but they also have several
features that make them useful for setting biodiversity conservation
priorities. They are widespread, diverse (yet with manageable numbers
of species), taxonomically well-known and stable, large, conspicuous
and mainly active by day, and have wide popular appeal. |
Important
Bird Areas
Information
on the distribution and status of birds has been used to identify
Kenya's Important Bird Areas -- priority
sites for biodiversity conservation. Sixty IBAs have been identified
so far, documented in the Nature Kenya publication 'Important Bird
Areas in Kenya' (See Publications).
Analyses
show that the IBA network successfully captures most of the diversity
in other groups as well. The Nature Kenya committees are now starting
to identify and document all Important Biodiversity Areas
in Kenya, using the available information on other taxa to ensure
that no key sites are left out. |
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