Data Zone
Country/territory: Wallis and Futuna Islands (to France)
IBA Criteria met: A4ii (2012)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 572,082 ha
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2012 | high | favourable | negligible |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site summary
The site boundary is based upon a seaward extension of 40 km around Alofi to encompass the foraging range of IBA threshold numbers of Red-footed Booby based upon a population estimate of 2,500 - 9,999 individuals, and a seaward extension of 7 km around Futuna to encompass the foraging range of IBA threshold numbers of Common White Tern based upon a population estimate of 1,000 - 2,499 breeding pairs from Thibault, J-C. and Guyot, I. (1987) Notes on the seabirds of Wallis and Futuna Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club, 107(2): 63-68.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Futuna Marine. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 02/02/2023.
