Grupo Jaragua - Important Bird Areas

IBAs of the DR

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Agradecimientos y Prólogo

Aves endémicas y amenazadas RD

DO001: Cayos Siete Hermanos

DO002: Nalga de Maco-R. Limpio

DO003: Armando Bermúdez

DO004: Sierra de Neyba

DO005: Lago Enriquillo

DO006: Sierra de Bahoruco

DO007: Jaragua

DO008: Laguna de Cabral

DO009: Bahoruco Oriental

DO010:Sierra de Martín García

DO011: Valle Nuevo

DO012:Ebano Verde

DO013: Loma Quita Espuela

DO014: Loma Guaconejo

DO015: Loma La Humeadora

DO016: Honduras

DO017: Bahía de las Calderas

Important Bird Areas

The Important Bird Areas (IBA) program, established by BirdlLife International, is the most ambitious initiative for biodiversity conservation on a global scale. Here we present some of the work related to this program in the Dominican Republic carried out by Grupo Jaragua in collaboration with many institutions, bot governmental and private. The identification of IBAS was carried out through a simple, yet rigurous methodology that allows the identification of areas considered to be important for birds (and biodiversity in general) using well defined, and standardized criteria.

The first criterion identifies sites where significant numbers of bird species considered to be endangered, vulnerable or their populations in decline (according to international lists, such as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature -IUCN- Red List of Endangered Species). Another criterion refers to places where species occur in a very limited area (less than 50,000km2). A third criterion identifies species restricted to unique and endangered habitats. A fourth criterion includes sites that support large bird aggregations of birds.

Get to know the DR's IBAs

To the left, you will find the factsheets for each.

Launching of IBAs DR Directory

Grupo Jaragua, with its collaborators from the Ministry of the Environment and INTEC university, launched the Important Bird Areas for the DR Directory at the National Botanic Garden on August 5th, 2010. The book authors (Laura Perdomo, Yvonne Arias, Yolanda León and David Wege), describe in detail 21 of the priority sites for bird conservation in DR, covering approximately 7,200 km², or 13% of the DRs territory. The book launch marks the start of a rescue effort for global biodiversity, which involves the actions of many institutions, agencies and individuals. On behalf of BirdLife International, Amiro Pérez Leroux, interim secretary of the Americas program, attended and spoke at the event. Also, Andrés Chalas, the attorney general from the Environmental Attorneys office of the Dominican Republic, and the Director of Protected Areas for the Ministry of the Environment were present.