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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2008

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus	LC	resident	1999	1,300 individuals	A2, A3, B3
Caucasian Grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi	NT	resident	1999	1,000 individuals	A1, A2, A3, B2
Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus	NT	resident	1999	4 breeding pairs	B2
Yellow-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus	LC	resident	1999	3,000 breeding pairs	A3
Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria	LC	resident	1999	500 breeding pairs	A3
Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris	LC	resident	1999	3,000 breeding pairs	A3
White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis	LC	resident	1999	50 breeding pairs	A3
Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla	LC	resident	1999	500-800 breeding pairs	A3, 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
Residential and commercial development	housing and urban areas	likely in short term (within 4 years)	small area/few individuals (<10%)	slow but significant deterioration	low

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%)	good (> 90%)	favourable
Grassland		0	0	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		0	0	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable

Conservation actions taken at site (response)
Conservation Designation	Management Planning	Conservation Action	Result
Whole area of site (>90%) covered by appropriate conservation designation	No management planning has taken place	The conservation measures needed for the site are being comprehensively and effectively implemented	medium

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Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Severo-Osetinsky	Zapovednik	29,530	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Mineral'nyi istochnik Mosota	Nature Monument	0	protected area overlaps with site	0
Karaugomskiy lednik	Nature Monument	60	protected area overlaps with site	0
Kabardino-Balkarsky	Zapovednik	82,507	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Fasnal'skiy sosnovyi bor	Nature Monument	170	protected area overlaps with site	0
Dzinaginskaya sosnovaya polyana	Nature Monument	9	protected area overlaps with site	0
Alania	National Park	54,926	is identical to site	55,000

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest		-
Grassland	Alpine, subalpine and boreal grassland	-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

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

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Alaniya National Park. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 25/01/2022.