Key Biodiversity Areas Process Overview

Center for Biodiversity Conservation

Conservation International

Madagascar

CI contribution to KBA Process

CBC, CEPF, USAID (MIARO), GCF and

others

Provide financial support to identify priority sites for biodiversity conservation (with partners’ collaboration):

• Threatened species research, studies and inventories

• Species distribution mapping

• Global Species Assessment

• Sites research

• Vegetation mapping

• Publication

Previous site prioritization initiatives

• GEF prioritization workshop in 1995

• Important Areas for Bird Conservation by Birdlife International in 1999

• Plan GRAP by ANGAP (Identify Potential Protected areas)

• CI Total Biodiversity Coverage workshop in 2001

• Regional priority workshops

• Assessment of Priority Areas for Plants Conservation (APAPC) by MBG in 2005

• Implementation of Durban Vision: Prioritization committee –Combination of the above

FISH 66 of 103

AMPHIBIA 55 of nearly 220

AVES 36 of 283

CRUSTACEA 2

GASTROPODA 24

INSECTA 6

MAMMALIA 49 of the 160+

PLANTAE 276

REPTILIA 18

532 Globally Threatened Species among 10 Taxonomic Groups

(IUCN Redlist 2004)

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Application of KBAs irreplaceability criteria

• Important Bird Areas by Birdlife International : 10 sites out of 84 IBAs sites

• Assessment of Priority Areas for Plants Conservation by MBG: 77 sites (1,200Plants or 10% of Madagascar flora, 2,900,000ha)

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Madagascar Laborde ProjectionProjection origin coordinates

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December 2004

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164 Key Biodiversity Areas identified by CI and partners based on multiple taxonomic groups (IBAs, APAPC, KBAs)

Existing protected areas plus Durban Vision new protected areas created in 2005-2006:

62 out of 164 identified KBAs

As of now, 11 of 15 AZE sites are protected

Key Issues

• KBAs delineation/ Freshwater KBAs• Incomplete IUCN assessments of taxa: reptiles, plants,

insects• Fluid taxonomy, especially for plants• Multi-species analysis/ Marxan analysis• KBAs prioritization • KBAs identification within the Indian Ocean Islands• Lack of data: reliability, application of irreplaceability

criteria • KBAs - communication and engagement of partners in

concept- viewed as an internal institutional process for the moment