BirdLife Data Zone

Voh Marine

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2012

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata	NT	breeding	2007	200-400 breeding pairs	A1, A4ii

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

IBA Conservation

IBA conservation status - summary
Year of assessment (most recent)	Threat (pressure)	Condition (state)	Action (response)
2012	medium	favourable	negligible
Was the whole site assessed?	yes	Condition (state) assessed by	habitat
Accuracy of information	poor

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat level 1	Threat level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Biological resource use	fishing & harvesting aquatic resources - unintentional effects: large scale	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Climate change and severe weather	habitat shifting and alteration	likely in long term (beyond 4 years)	whole area/population (>90%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low
Pollution	excess energy - light pollution	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Pollution	industrial & military effluents - oil spills	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low

Condition of the site (state), by habitat
Habitat	Habitat detail	Reference area (ha)	Actual area (ha)	Habitat quantity (% remaining)	Habitat quality (carrying capacity)	Result
Sea		0	0	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable

Conservation actions taken at the site (response)
Protected-area designation	Management planning	Other conservation action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management planning has taken place	Very little or no conservation action taking place	negligible

For more information about IBA conservation status, please click here

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Marine Neritic		-

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Voh Marine. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/31339 on 11/06/2023.