Akkuş Island (Türkiye) IBA | Details

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Akkuş Island

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2004 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:

Species	Red List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
European Shag Gulosus aristotelis	LC	breeding (1989–1996)	90 pairs	B3

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2004. The most recent assessment (2012) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2012	good	low	very low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
no	population	medium

State (condition of the trigger species' populations)
Species	Actual vs Reference (units)	% remaining	Result
European Shag Gulosus aristotelis	90 / 90 (pairs)	100	good

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Biological resource use	happening now	some of population/area (10–49%)	no or slight decline (<1% over 3 generations)	low

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	very low

Habitats

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Artificial/Terrestrial	60
Marine Neritic	40

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
not utilised	95
tourism/recreation	5
fisheries/aquaculture	major (>10)

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Akkuş Island (Türkiye). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/akkuş-island-iba-türkiye on 21/12/2024.