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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
Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus	LC	passage	1985	3,500 individuals	A4i
Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis	LC	breeding	1975	650 nests	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.

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Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Little Grassy	Designation Not Known	563	protected area contained by site	570
Lesser Slave Wildland Provincial Park	Wildland Provincial Park	3,581	protected area contained by site	0
Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park	Provincial Park	7,617	protected area contained by site	7,400
Hilliard's Bay Provincial Park	Provincial Park	2,325	protected area contained by site	2,300

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Boreal coniferous forest, Boreal deciduous woods, Boreal mixed woods	-
Wetlands (inland)		-

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

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Lesser Slave Lake PP. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 08/08/2022.