How do I get a KBA updated from local to global?

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I work at a local grade KBA that’s in the KBA database for one species of regionally threatened bird (bobwhite quail), but I think over the past couple years, we’ve hit the minimum population requirements for an internationally endangered bird (whooping crane) during their migration. I’m not sure if purposing it as a new KBA is appropriate since it’s already in the database as a local one, but I can’t find any information on updating a KBA other than a boundary update.

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That is good question, am very keen to hear the response to this question. but I think this limitations due to global assessment decisions, local level should keep updates.

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Hi and welcome to the KBA Community,

If you work at what we term a legacy KBA (likely an Important Bird Area or IBA) that is recognised as a regional KBA you can always re-assess it in the World Database of KBAs (WDKBA). There is a process to do this and we encourage proposers to make their reassessments as thorough as possible, including other species and ecosystems that also qualify the site as this makes the KBA more robust to changes in any one species. So think about what plants, invertebrates, mammals, herps etc you might have that may qualify the site also. If you are in a country with a KBA National Coordination Group we would want you to work with that group. If not you can propose as an individual. It is easier to probably chat about what you want to do with someone in the KBA Secretariat - can I suggest you contact Samridhi Rijal, the KBA Training Officer on srijal@keybiodiversityareas.org and set up a time to have her walk you through the process of reasessing a site in the WDKBA. Andy

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Thank you Andy. This is helpful.

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I don’t know why I got a notification for this comment and no others. I just submitted a reassessment a couple of hours ago without reading any of this.

I looked into amphibians, but it seems like no known ones meet any requirements and the Henslow’s Sparrow probably meets B3, but it and the Whooping Crane are the only ones and there’s no concrete data on Henslow’s nesting population