BirdLife Data Zone

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Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge

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IBA Criteria

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2009

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Hawaiian Goose Branta sandvicensis	NT	breeding	2007	50 individuals	A1, A2, A4i
Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana	EN	breeding	1994	251 individuals	A1, A2, A4i
Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai	VU	breeding	1997	513 individuals	A1, A2, A4i
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus	LC	breeding	1993	171 individuals	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	high	not assessed	low
Was the whole site covered?	Yes	State assessed by	unset
Accuracy of information	poor

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat Level 1	Threat Level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Climate change and severe weather	storms and floods	likely in long term (beyond 4 years)	whole area/population (>90%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	invasive non-native/alien species/diseases - named species	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	problematic native species/diseases - named species	likely in short term (within 4 years)	whole area/population (>90%)	slow but significant deterioration	high
Pollution	agricultural & forestry effluents - nutrient loads	happening now	small area/few individuals (<10%)	slow but significant deterioration	low

Conservation actions taken at site (response)
Conservation Designation	Management Planning	Conservation Action	Result
Some of site covered (10-49%)	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

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Hanalei	National Wildlife Refuge	176	is identical to site	371

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
nature conservation and research	-
agriculture	-

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

Land ownership

All of the 917 acres (371 hectares) comprising Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge is owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A portion of the refuge, 186 acres (75 hectares), is farmed for taro under a special use permit.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 01/04/2023.