Important Bird Areas in India: Priority Sites for Conservation [Hardcover]

M. Zafar-Ul Islam (Author), Asad R. Rahmani (Author), Bombay Natural History Society (Editor)

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Hardcover: 1152 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195673336
ISBN-13: 978-0195673333
Product Dimensions: 30.6 x 21.8 x 5.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 3.7 Kg

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Important Bird Areas in India is an impressive work, though it may sound dull listing 465 IBAs, this is far from the case. There is a lot of detail and many fine photographs of areas that most of us have never heard of, let alone had an opportunity to visit, and that hold an impressive fauna. It is to be hoped that the book's production will lead to improvements in the status of many of the species discussed. Times Literary Supplement, September 2006.

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This book is the result of five years' exhaustive work by the BNHS. The data, which form the core of the book, have been collected by more than 1,000 people: many hundreds of professiona and amateur ornithologists, birdwatchers, conservationists, forest officials, and others interested in birds.

It is the most detailed publication ever produced on the subject of birds or conservation and it uncovers, analyzes and assesses all of the evidence, presenting it together with all the sources. The study has given a detailed analysis of sites that have been identified for bird conservation in India on the basis of globally accepted criteria. Each bird area is introduced with maps, analysis, avifauna section with tables of threatened species present, and a brief description of threatened birds, which have important habitats in the relevant states.

The study shows that out of 465 important birds in India, 191 wildlife sanctuaries have been idenfitied as IBAs, 52 are national parks, 23 are tiger reserves, while 198 are not officially protected.