Lufira valley (Congo, The Democratic Republic of the)

CD019

Lufira valley

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2001 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 List¹	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Wattled Crane Bugeranus carunculatus	VU	resident	-	present	A1
Shoebill Balaeniceps rex	VU	resident	-	present	A1
Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Racquet-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Lufira Masked Weaver Ploceus ruweti	LC	resident	2000	present	A1, A2, A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2001) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2001. The most recent assessment (2001) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2001	not assessed	not assessed	low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
no	unset	-

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Whole area of site (>90%) covered by appropriate conservation designation	Not assessed	Not assessed	low

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
-	Lufira	Réserve de Biosphere	13
1982	Vallée de la Lufira	UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve	100
2017	Bassin de la Lufira	Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance	59

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Wetlands (inland)		57
Forest		22
Shrubland		19

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
fisheries/aquaculture	-
nature conservation and research	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lufira valley (Congo, The Democratic Republic of the). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lufira-valley-iba-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the on 22/11/2024.