BirdLife Data Zone

TN023

Barrage El Houareb

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Criteria

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2001

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala	EN	winter	-	334 individuals	A1, A4i
Marbled Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris	VU	breeding	1999	150-620 individuals	A1, A4i
Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca	NT	winter	1993	1,400 individuals	A1, A4i

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)
2009	very high	not assessed	low
Was the whole site covered?	Yes	State assessed by	unset
Accuracy of information	good

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat Level 1	Threat Level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Climate change and severe weather	drought	likely in long term (beyond 4 years)	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Geological events	earthquakes/tsunamis	happening now	whole area/population (>90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	very high

Conservation actions taken at site (response)
Conservation Designation	Management Planning	Conservation Action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management plan exists but the management planning process has begun	Substantive conservation measures are being implemented but these are not comprehensive and are limited by resources and capacity	low

For more information about IBA monitoring please click here

IBA Protection

Protection status:

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Barrage Merguellil - El Houareb	Wetland Zone of National Importance	714	protected area overlaps with site	0
Barrage Merguellil - El Houareb	Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance	714	protected area overlaps with site	0

Local conservation groups

The local conservation groups below are working to support conservation at this IBA.

Name	Year formed
AAO/ Kairouan Regional Branch	2000

For more information on BirdLife's work with Local conservation groups please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
hunting	-
water management	-

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2021) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Barrage El Houareb. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 15/04/2021.