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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2007

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Nukuhiva Imperial-pigeon Ducula galeata	EN	resident	2006	35 individuals	A1, A2
White-capped Fruit-dove Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii	LC	resident	-	common	A2
Polynesian Swiftlet Aerodramus leucophaeus	LC	resident	-	common	A2
Ultramarine Lorikeet Vini ultramarina	CR	resident	-	2,300 individuals	A1, A2
Iphis Monarch Pomarea iphis	CR	resident	1998	500-1,250 breeding pairs	A1, A2
Northern Marquesan Reed-warbler Acrocephalus percernis	LC	resident	-	common	A2

Note: The current IUCN Red List category may differ from the category that was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment.

For more information about the IBA criteria, please click here

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat level 1	Threat level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Biological resource use	logging & wood harvesting - unintentional effects: subsistence/small scale	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	invasive non-native/alien species/diseases - named species	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high

Conservation actions taken at the site (response)
Protected-area designation	Management planning	Other conservation action	Result
Not assessed	Not assessed	Not assessed	not assessed

For more information about IBA conservation status, please click here

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Vaikivi Réserve	Natural Reserve	240	protected area contained by site	240

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Dry deciduous forest (tropical), Lower montane rain forest (tropical), Lowland evergreen rain forest (tropical)	-
Shrubland		-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Coconut plantations	-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-

For further information about the IUCN habitat classification, please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
forestry	-
water management	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ua Huka. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/23782 on 28/05/2023.