\u2713Kerala will soon have its own red list of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713Once it gets ready, Kerala will be the first State to have a region-specific red list of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf About the Regional Bird Red list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713The Kerala Bird Monitoring Collective led by Kerala Agricultural University and the Bird Count India will conduct the regional red list assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It will be done on the basis of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) guidelines<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It will be a decentralised process like how the Kerala Bird Atlas was prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf Need of such red list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713There are some limitations with the global IUCN red list as it is prepared in a global context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713A species seen common at the global level may be a threatened species at the regional level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713So a regional red list is needed to conserve that species at the local level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf Criterias under IUCN Guidelines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713The IUCN guidelines for preparing the red list have five main criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713The population size reduction measured over 10 years or three generations is one of the major guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713Geographic range on the basis of extent of occurrence or area of occupancy is another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713Small population size and decline; very small or restricted population; and quantitative analysis indicating the probability of extinction in the wild are the other criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf About Kerala Bird Atlas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It was prepared between 2015 and 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It was conducted as a citizen science-driven exercise with participation of over 1,000 volunteers of the bird watching community<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It provides a solid baseline data about distribution and abundance of various bird species in the State<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It accounts for nearly three lakh records of 361 species, including 94 very rare species, 103 rare species, 110 common species, 44 very common species, and 10 most abundant species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713According to the atlas, most of the endemics are concentrated in the Western Ghats while the threatened species are cited mostly along the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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