Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on
birds
Addressing underlying causes
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Measures of public engagement with biodiversity through birds
Source: BirdLife International unpublished data; USDA Forest Service (2007)
National survey on recreation and the environment: bird watching trends in the
United States, 1994–2006. Athens, Georgia: USDA Forest Service; Birdwatching
Fair data kindly provided by Martin Davies/RSPB.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Addressing underlying causes
The UK Sustainable Development Indicator for wild bird population
trends
Source: RSPB/BTO/JNCC/DEFRA.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Safeguarding ecosystems, species and genes
RLI for birds worldwide in different ecosystems
Source: Analysis of data held in BirdLife’s World Bird Database (2010).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Safeguarding ecosystems, species and genes
RLI for birds in Madagascar
Source: Randrianasolo et al. (in prep.).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Safeguarding ecosystems, species and genes
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Location of IBAs of global significance
Source: Analysis of data held in BirdLife’s World Bird Database (2010).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Safeguarding ecosystems, species and genes
Coverage of IBAs by protected areas
Source: Butchart et al. (in prep.).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Safeguarding ecosystems, species and genes
IBA indices for Kenya, showing trends in the state of IBAs, pressures
upon them, and responses in place
Source: Mwangi et al. (in press)
Bird Conserv. Internat.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
Wild Bird Indices for forest and other habitats in Europe and North
America, and bird population trends in the Arctic
Source: EBCC/RSPB/BirdLife International/Statistics Netherlands; US NABCI Committee (2009);
McRae et al. (2010) Arctic Species Trend Index. CAFF International, Iceland
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
The RLI for seabirds
Source: Analysis of data held in BirdLife’s World Bird Database (2010).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
Wild Bird Index for 36 farmland bird species (as used
by the European Union to monitor agricultural
sustainability)
Source: EBCC/RSPB/BirdLife International/Statistics Netherlands.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
Wild Bird Index for 14 Swedish farmland bird species
(as used by the Swedish government for the same
purpose)
Source: Lindström et al. (2010) Monitoring population changes of birds in Sweden.
Annual report for 2009. Lund University, Sweden.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
RLI for the impacts of different drivers of biodiversity
loss on the world’s birds
Source: McGeoch et al. (2010) Divers. Distrib. 16: 95–108.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
The Climatic Impact Index for European bird populations, showing the degree to
which population trends of 122 species have responded in the direction
expected from climate change
Source: Gregory et al. (2009) Public Libr. Sci. ONE 4: e4678.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Reducing pressures and promoting sustainable use
Management scenarios for African IBAs, based on the
turnover of species projected under climate change
Colours represent different
scenarios, with associated
management
recommendations:
Source: Hole et al. (in review).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Enhancing benefits from biodiversity and ecosystems
RLI for pollinators
Source: Analysis of data held in BirdLife’s World Bird Database (2010).
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Enhancing benefits from biodiversity and ecosystems
Change in abundance of different bird species groups ten years after selective
logging compared with similar undisturbed primary forest in northern French
Guiana
Source: Thiollay (1997) Biodiv. Conserv. 6: 1,155–1,173.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Enhancing implementation
Proportion of countries addressing the conservation of threatened birds
and IBAs as documented in their CBD national reports
Source: National CBD reports for a sample of 24 countries analysed by BirdLife International.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Enhancing implementation
Measures of the provision of biodiversity information
Source: Analysis of data held in BirdLife’s World Bird Database (2010); ISI Web of Knowledge.
Meeting the 2020 biodiversity targets
Action and monitoring based on birds