Transcript Database on the Threatened Biodiversity in Central (Middle)

Development of the database
on the threatened biodiversity
in Central Asia with examples
of migratory vertebrates
Elena A. Kreuzberg, Elena A. Bykova,
Eleanor J. Milner-Gulland, Stephen Ling
PROJECT 99-1483
Correlates of Extinction Risk for
Central Asian Biodiversity
Project participants:
Imperial College London, UK
Institute of Zoology, UZ
IUCN - World Conservation Union, CH
Institute of Zoology, KZ
Swedish Threatened Species Unit, SE
Institute of Deserts, TM
Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, TJ
Institute of Botany, KZ
Objectives
• To integrate the Red
Listing system used by
the Central Asian
countries into the global
framework IUCN-SSC.
• To develop a system for
assessing the threat of
extinction of Central
Asian species at 3 levels:
national, regional and
global.
Objectives
• To use archive data to
correlates extinctions of the
listed species at the national,
regional and global scales.
• To product of GIS for
extinction risk.
• To initiate and support a
collaborative network of CA
scientists.
The main ecosystems of CA
INTAS Project
List of the Threatened Taxa for CA
National Endemics
Regional Endemics
Wise Distributional Taxa
Migrants
Questionable Taxa
Threatened Species Database:
1. Country
2. Taxonomy
3. Scientific name, Russian name,
English name
4. Categories and criteria
Red List IUCN-SSC
5. National threatened status
6. Life-history characteristics:
body mass, generation time,
fecundity
Threatened Species Database:
7. Environment: landscape zone, biotope, trophic
resources, specific environment requirements)
8. Range: (sub)populations,
distribution, range area,
degree of fragmentation,
dispersal distances,
contiguous
9. Number: current number,
(sub)population trend,
carrying capacity
Threatened Species Database:
8. Threats: time, degree,
probability, diapason
9. Conservation measures:
accepted measure,
necessary measure
10. References
12. Contact details of
expert: name,
institution, post address,
phone, fax, e-mail
Example 1
Saiga tatarica tatarica, Saiga
Mammalia, Bovidae
Saiga tatarica tatarica
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Distributional: ZU KZ TM RU
Subpopulations: Betpak-dala, Ustyurt, Ural
Landscape: desert, semi-desert, steppe
Dispersal: 200-1200 km
Range area: 300,000-350,000 sq.km
Current number: 178,000
Saiga tatarica tatarica
Saiga tatarica tatarica
• Population trend: decline from 1974 (especially
in 1999-2000)
• Limiting factors: poaching, disease, habitat
degradation, human disturbance, natural
fluctuations (2x)
• Conservation measure: Hunting prohibition
from 1998-1999, listed in 1999 Red Data Book
of Turkmenistan and 2000 IUCN Red List