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Strategy for IBA conservation

Important Bird Areas are key sites for the conservation of birds and biodiversity, and the building blocks for conservation planning. They are identified nationally, using data gathered locally and applying internationally agreed criteria. The worldwide network of IBAs forms an essential foundation for global nature conservation.

In its current forward plan, A Strategy for Birds and People, the BirdLife International Partnership have set themselves the task of identifying, conserving and promoting a global network of internationally important sites for birds and biodiversity with three specific objectives, two indicators by which to measure progress and some high level targets.

Strategy for IBA Conservation sets out a shared vision for how BirdLife will achieve this. While IBA identification is well advanced, much more needs to be done to promote and conserve in perpetuity these critically important sites. Strategy for IBA Conservation describes all elements of the BirdLife Important Bird Area programme together with a set of global goals to be achieved through the BirdLife Partnership in collaboration with others by 2015. It provides a cross reference to all other key BirdLife IBA documentation that exists.

Contents:

Introduction

  1. The Important Bird Area Concept
  2. Purpose of this Document
  3. BirdLife's Objectives for Site Conservation
  4. What are Important Bird Areas

1. Identification

  1. Basic Principles
  2. IBA Criteria and Their Application
  3. When is an IBA Identified
  4. Sub-global IBAs
  5. Marine IBAs
  6. Publication & Data Handling
  7. Updating the List
  8. Potential IBAs
  9. Potential Goals for IBA Identification

2. Monitoring

  1. Basic Principles
  2. BirdLife IBA Monitoring Framework
  3. Monitoring and Indicators
  4. Potential Goals for IBA Monitoring

3. Planning

  1. National Plans
  2. Regional Plans
  3. Setting Priorities for Action
  4. Elements to Consider in Priority-setting
  5. Priority-setting Frameworks
  6. Planning for Site Networks
  7. Potential Goals for Site Networks

4. Advocacy

  1. Where To Start
  2. Advocacy Objectives
  3. Audiences
  4. Key Messages
  5. Making Advocacy Effective
  6. Potential Goals for Advocacy

 

5. Conservation Action

  1. Site Action
  2. Land Purchase/Management Agreements
  3. Linking Conservation & Livelihoods
  4. Campaigns and Emergency Responses                  

6. Building Support and Creating Alliances

  1. National Committees
  2. IBA Conservation Networks
  3. IBA Local Conservation Groups

7. Promoting IBAs as Key Biodiversity Areas

  1. KBAs: History and Status of IBAs - Developing the Concept and Criteria
  2. KBAs: History and Status of KBAs - KBA Mandates in Policy
  3. IBAs as KBAs
  4. BirdLife's Approach for KBAs
  5. Potential Goals for KBAs

8. Awareness, Communication and Branding

  1. Awareness and Communication
  2. Branding

9. Resourcing

  1. The Cost of IBA Conservation
  2. 'External Financing IBA Conservation
  3. Raising Funds for IBAs
  4. IBAs as Providers of Ecosystem Services
  5. Using IBAs to Generate Sustainable Income
  6. Trust Funds and Endowment Funds

10. Capacity Development

  1. Developing Capacity to Conserve IBAs
  2. The IBA Programme as an NGO Development Tool

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Darwin Initiative
Supported in part by the Darwin Initiative (UK), a small grants programme promoting biodiversity conservation. The initiative is funded and administered by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra).


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