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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2000

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Northern Hawk-owl Surnia ulula	LC	breeding	1995	10-100 breeding pairs	C6
Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus	LC	resident	1995	50-100 breeding pairs	B2

Note: This table presents the IBA criteria triggered and the species that triggered then at the time of assessment, the current IUCN Red List category may vary from that which was in place at that time.

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Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat Level 1	Threat Level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Biological resource use	hunting & collecting terrestrial animals - intentional use (species being assessed is the target)	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high

Condition of key/trigger populations (state)
Scientific	Common	TargetPop	ActualPop	Units	Remaining	Result
Anser fabalis	Bean Goose	50	30	breeding pairs	60	unfavourable

Conservation actions taken at site (response)
Conservation Designation	Management Planning	Conservation Action	Result
Whole area of site (>90%) covered by appropriate conservation designation	A management plan exists but it is out of date or not comprehensive	Substantive conservation measures are being implemented but these are not comprehensive and are limited by resources and capacity	medium

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Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Joutsenaavan-Kaita-aavan soidensuojelualue	Soidensuojelualue	12,852	protected area contains site	10,318
Joutsenaapa - Kaita-aapa	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	12,785	protected area contains site	0
Joutsenaapa - Kaita-aapa	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	12,785	protected area contains site	10,318

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest		-
Wetlands (inland)	Raised bogs	-

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Land-use	Extent (% of site)
unknown	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2021) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Joutsenaapa-Kaita-aapa. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 01/12/2021.