Overview of KBA Process in Brazil

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1 Overview of KBA Process in Brazil
Ricardo Machado Mario Barroso Cristiano Nogueira Adriana Paese Adriano Paglia Matthew Foster This is the staff that has been directly involved in the KBA identification process in Brazil. José Maria Cardoso da Silva Adriano Jerozolimski Luis Barbosa George Camargo Claudia Arcangelo

2 2004 – 2005 Atlantic Forest 2005 Cerrado Pantanal Amazonia Caatinga
Pampa CI Brazil has five programs and offices, located in regions where conservation is most needed. This includes two hotspots (the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado) and two wilderness areas. KBAs identification was carried out regionally by specialists of each program. It started earlier in 2004 in the Atlantic Forest and more recently, in 2005, in Cerrado, Pantanal, Amazonia, Caatinga and Pampas. Peculiarities of each region have implications for each step of the KBA process and also for our conservation actions in each region. That is why we have conducted this process separately for each Biome.

3 Support to KBA process Brazil Center for Biodiversity Conservation
Center for Applied Biodiversity Science Critical Ecosystem Paternship Fund Actually, since 2002 Brazil CBC has supported groups who have build digital databases on different taxa. It has also supported species inventories that are carried out by consultants and partner organizations in different regions of the country. KBAs implementation has also been supported by Brazil CBC, specially but not exclusively, within corridors. Two important databases are been built by partners and will soon become available. These are two projects supported by the Atlantic Forest CEPF: a database on vascullar plants of the Atlantic Forest which has more than one hundred genus, endemic to the Biome, and a database on Bromeliaceae, which has approximatelly 32,000 records. We believe that this will at least double the KBA’s number that we currently have for the Atlantic Forest, highlighting small patches which are frequently not targeted by vertebrate species inventories.

4 Previous site priorization initiatives
1998 – 2000 PROBIO – ´Projeto de Conservação e Utilização Sustentável da Diversidade Biológica Brasileira` Between 1998 and 2000 the Federal Government, the Ministry of the Environment, carried out a project named Projeto de Conservação e Utilização da Diversidade Biológica Brasileira. As a work result of a great number of researchers, this project identified 900 priority areas for conservation in Brazil, including areas that were not sufficiently known but of probable biologica importance. This areas have been incorporated into public police and have guided species inventories. These areas are currently been updated and there is a comitment from the ministry of the environment to use the results of CI’s KBAs process.

5 Previous site priorization initiatives
Gap Analysis Rodrigues et al, 2003 Paglia et al, 2003 Machado et al, 2003 Another priorization initiative KBA analysis builts from is the global gap analysis and gap analysis carried out for Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest.

6 Previous site priorization initiatives
Important Bird Areas ‘Áreas importantes para a conservação das aves no Brasil: parte 1 –estados do domínio da Mata Atlântica’ Org. Glayson A. Bencke, Giovanni N. Maurício, Pedro F. Develey e Jaqueline M. Goerck. São Paulo: SAVE Brasil, 2006. KBA process in Brazil is also build on the initiative of Birdlife International. They have recently published a book on Important Bird Areas in the Atlantic Forest and they are interested in working with us for KBA identification in other Biomes.

7 Vulnerability criteria Terrestrial vertebrate species
92% 82% 84% 88% We have identified KBAs for 88% of all threatened terrestrial vertebrate species, according to 2004 IUCN list.

8 Species and taxonomic groups
96% 83% 84% 94% 88%

9 1127 KBAs for 219 globally threatened species
17%% Vulnerability criteria 1127 KBAs for 219 globally threatened species 281 Protected Areas Private Reserves Sustainable Use Strictly Protected 846 KBAs unprotected 10% 23% 4% 44% 2%

10 45 71 186 75

11 Atlantic Forest 524 KBAs for 138 red – listed species
121 Important Bird Areas 266 KBAs in 122 IBAs accounting for 131 sp or 91.60% of analyzed species 81 Protected Areas 386 unprotected How IBAs are representative of other taxa

12 Cerrado Vunerability 126 KBAs for 46 red – listed species
and Irreplaceability 38 KBAs Irreplaceability 29 KBAs 42 Protected Areas 151 unprotected Photo credits: Cristano Nogueira Mario Barroso Paulo Sousa A. Serret/ACEN Rudiger Dmoch

13 Amazonia Amazonia 271 KBAs for 50 red – listed species
72 Protected areas 199 unprotected Photo credits: Enrico Bernard IBAMA Val Campos Dominic W. Adriano Jerozolimski

14 Pantanal 43 KBAs for 17 red – listed species
6 KBAs are Protected Areas 37 unprotected

15 Delineation issues - Hotspots

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17 Delineation issues – Wilderness areas
Causes of species spatial and temporal patterns Pantanal: flood pulses

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19 Priorization Atlantic Forest
Restinga de Maçambaba e Ilha de Cabo Frio Joinville (cood. sede municipal) P.N. Itatiaia Santo - André Estação Ferroviária de Campo Grande P. E. de Ilhabela Remanescentes do Município de Ribeirão Grande e Maciço Florestal de Paranapiacaba P. N. de Superagui P. E. Ilha do Cardoso E. E. de Juréia-Itatins Salto da Ararinha Flona Mario Xavier Região Serrana do Rio de Janeiro Sooretama / Linhares Chui PE Serra do Mar entre Caraguatatuba e Picinguaba PE Ilhabela Estação Veracruz Faz. Santana São Lourenço do Sul Morro do Ferro (Poços de Caldas) Ilha Queimada Grande Mimoso do Sul Santa Teresa e REBIO Augusto Ruschi Mata da Balbina Serra do Baturité Chapada do Araripe Serra de Maranguape e Aratanha Arquipélago de Alcatrazes

20 Priorization - Cerrado

21 Key issues: Applying other criteria to KBAs identification
KBAs delineation in wilderness areas Vulnerability and irreplaceability concepts Priorization methods Costs of KBA strategy