Estancia La Rafaela (Paraguay) IBA | Details

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Estancia La Rafaela

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2007 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
Sharp-tailed Tyrant Culicivora caudacuta	LC	resident (1998–2007)	present	A1
Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora	VU	resident (1998–2007)	present	A1

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2007. The most recent assessment (2011) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2011	not assessed	very high	very low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
no	unset	-

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Agricultural expansion and intensification	happening now	whole of population/area (>90%)	rapid decline (>30% over 3 generations)	very high

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Little/none of area covered (<10%)	No management planning has taken place	Very little or no conservation action taking place	very low

Habitats

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Savanna	56	Savanna
Forest	44	Tropical deciduous forest; Tropical semi-deciduous forest; Tropical semi-evergreen forest

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
hunting	-
tourism/recreation	-

Land ownership

El área corresponde a propiedades privadas.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Estancia La Rafaela (Paraguay). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/estancia-la-rafaela-iba-paraguay on 23/12/2024.