Lake Barlee (Australia) IBA | Details | BirdLife International

Lake Barlee

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2009 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
Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus	LC	breeding (1980–1995)	179,000 nests	A4i

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2009. The most recent assessment (2008) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2008	not assessed	medium	not assessed
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	unset	medium

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	happening now	some of population/area (10–49%)	slow decline (1–10% over 3 generations)	medium
Energy production and mining	likely in long term (>4 years)	some of population/area (10–49%)	moderate decline (10–30% over 3 generations)	medium

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Not assessed	Not assessed	Not assessed	not assessed

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
-	Mount Elvire (Proposed)	Reserve (-)	5

Habitats

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Wetlands (inland)	100	Saline lakes

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
not utilised	100

Land ownership

Unallocated Crown land managed by the Western Australian Department for Planning and Infrastructure. Northern Uranium Limited are currently awaiting approval of an application to mine a 227 km² block of land that includes the part of the bed at the south-western end of Lake Barlee (Northern Uranium Limited 2006) and other mining companies are prospecting in the area.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lake Barlee (Australia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lake-barlee-iba-australia on 23/12/2024.