BirdLife Data Zone

SG003

Central Forest

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Criteria

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2004

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Brown-chested Jungle-flycatcher Cyornis brunneatus	VU	winter	2004	present	A1

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.

For more information about the IBA assessment process and criteria please click here

IBA Monitoring

Most recent IBA monitoring assessment
Year of assessment	Threat score (pressure)	Condition score (state)	Action score (response)
2012	medium	near favourable	medium
Was the whole site covered?	No	State assessed by	Habitat
Accuracy of information	medium

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat Level 1	Threat Level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Human intrusions and disturbance	recreational activities	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium

Condition of habitat (state)
Habitat	Habitat Detail	Reference Area (ha)	Actual Area (ha)	% of habitat remaining	% of carrying capacity (overall)	Result
Forest		0	0	good (> 90%)	moderate (70-90%)	near favourable

Condition of key/trigger populations (state)
Scientific	Common	TargetPop	ActualPop	Units	Remaining	Result
Pycnonotus zeylanicus	Straw-headed Bulbul	50	25	individuals	50	unfavourable
Cyornis brunneatus		500	400	individuals	80	near favourable

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90%) covered by appropriate conservation designation	A management plan exists but it is out of date or not comprehensive	Some limited conservation initiatives are in place	medium

For more information about IBA monitoring please click here

IBA Protection

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Central Catchment Nature Reserve	Nature Reserve	3,043	protected area contained by site	2,181
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve	Nature Reserve	163	protected area contained by site	2,300

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest		-
Artificial/Terrestrial		-
Wetlands (inland)		-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
tourism/recreation	-
nature conservation and research	-
other	-

For further information about the land use classification please click here.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Central Forest. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 25/03/2023.