Grupo para la discusión sobre la identificación y revisión de KBA en España.
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Hi @David_Diaz it was great to see your recent article on this work here. I was wondering whether the Canary Islands are included in the Spanish national KBA assessment? The islands of course contain several endemics of conservation concern. Thanks
Buenas Thomas!
Well, we involuntary omitted in the article the fact that our third workshop is going to be held in Tenerife… so yes, we’re including the Canary Islands.
During this first national KBA assessment, I’m trying to maintain a “keep it easy” approach, by focusing in threatened and endemic (ideally micro-endemic) species from as many taxa as possible, and updating delineation of all existing KBA (adjusting to existing protected areas by expanding, splitting or merging KBA whenever necessary) and identifying new KBA (usually small sites),
FYI, the current list of potential triggers for the Canary Islands is over 4,500 species (only mentioning endemics). Let’s see how the workshop goes; I have high expectations, but with limited time (during the workshop and after the workshop to review the proposals before the project deadline).
Un abrazo!
D.
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That’s great news, David! And quite a list to be getting started with! I’m aware of one micro endemic - Munidopsis polymorpha a.k.a. “Jameos blind crab” or “jameito” - it is found only in the Jameos del Agua on Lanzarote, but it is not Red List assessed yet and doesn’t even have an entry in SIS. It’s quite an interesting location - a vibrant tourist attraction heavily modified by César Manrique in the ‘60s. Good luck with the assessment.
Indeed… we have a few of those species. One of the challenges of this assessments are going to be the species not yet in SIS… but working on that. The National Red List team included in SIS a few hundred of -endemic- species recently; beyon those species that we’re also assessing for KBA whenever possible, we’ll do the same for a other endemics, including over 100 species in Sierra Nevada and many Canarian species -such as Munidopsis polymorpha, which is on the list of good potential KBA triggers… saludos!
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