Bolivia

State of the world's birds case studies

Introduction: The importance of birds to biodiversity

State: What we know about the changing state of birds

Titicaca Grebe is being driven rapidly towards extinction owing to the unregulated use of gill nets

Pressure: Why birds are declining

Response: What can be done to improve the status of birds

Conserving key biodiversity sites in the Amazon rainforest
Empowering local people is helping to protect the Endangered Wattled Curassow
Local knowledge surveys can help track threatened species: the example of Horned Curassow
Metodologías participativas para la planeación de la conservación en los Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru
Participative methods for conservation planning at Lakes Poopó and UruUru on the Bolivian Altiplano
Understanding local needs: the role of Important Bird Areas in peoples livelihoods
Working together to conserve flamingos at a network of sites in the High Andes

Key publications

Devenish, C., Diaz, D. F., Clay, R. P., Davidson, I. J. and Zabala, I. Y. (2009) Important Bird Areas of the Americas: Priority Sites for Biodiversity Conservation. BirdLife International

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AsociaciÃ³n ArmonÃa (2011) Estado de conservaciÃ³n de las Aves en Bolivia (State of bird conservation in Bolivia). AsociaciÃ³n ArmonÃa. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

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References

YÃ©pez, I., Devenish, C. and Clay, R. P. (2010) Important Bird Areas in the Amazon Basin. Quito: BirdLife International Americas Secretariat.
BirdLife International and Conservation International (2005) Ãreas Importantes para la ConservaciÃ³n de las Aves en los Andes Tropicales: sitios prioritarios para la conservacÃon de la biodiversidad [Important Bird Areas in the Tropical Andes: priority sites for biodiversity conservation]. Quito: BirdLife International. [In Spanish]

Bolivia at a glance

Capital

Sucre

Area

1,098,581 km²

BirdLife Partner

Asociación Civil Armonía

Species
Total number of birds	1,439
Globally threatened birds	54
Country endemics	18
Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas
Number of IBAs	50
Total IBA area	22,886,484 ha
Endemic Bird Areas
Number of EBAs	9

Recommended Citation
BirdLife International (2019) Country profile: Bolivia. Available from http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/country/bolivia. Checked: 2019-12-15

State of the world's birds case studies

Capital

Area

BirdLife Partner

Species

Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas

Endemic Bird Areas