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Site description (2008 baseline):
Site location and context
Candelaria-Campur includes humid broadleaf forests in lowlands and foothills on the Guatemalan Atlantic slope, ranging in elevation from 100 to 1900 m.
Few ornithological data are available for this IBA. Based on a rapid assessment (APROBA SANK 2006) and unpublished data (K. Eisermann & C. Avendaño, pers. comm.) the site is important for biome-restricted species of the Gulf Caribbean Slope. Because the site includes also cloud forest, it is expected to be important for species restricted to the Central American Highlands.
Humid evergreen broadleaf forest has been reduced to 32% of the IBA. Small scale (family and small enterprises) agriculture covers 66% of the IBA: corn fields 13%, cardamom and coffee plantations 7%, cattle farming 2%, secondary growth scrub 45% (MAGA 2006).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Slash-and-burn agriculture is common in the area, threatening the forest by fires and conversion to agricultural land.
No part of this IBA has a status of legal protection (CONAP 2007).
The land privately and communal owned.
PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program provided unpublished ornithological data. Input of unpublished data and suggestions for the delimitation of the IBA was provided during a workshop in Cobán, in August 2006, by representatives of Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas (CONAP) - Las Verapaces, Asociación de Proyectos Evaluados Raxmu (PROEVAL RAXMU), Peace Corps, Cooperativa Sanimtaca, Cooperativa Samac, and Comité Central Menotita. This first assessment of IBAs in Guatemala was conducted by Sociedad Guatemalteca de Ornitología and BirdLife International in the Americas.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Candelaria - Campur (Guatemala). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/candelaria--campur-iba-guatemala on 22/11/2024.
