Mumoni Hill Forest Reserve (Kenya) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Mumoni Hill Forest Reserve

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2016 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
Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus	EN	resident	2006-2016	present	A1
Hinde's Babbler Turdoides hindei	VU	resident	2006-2016	250-999 adults	A1, A2

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2016) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2016. The most recent assessment (2023) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2023	unfavourable	very high	low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	habitat	good

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Forest	moderate (70-90%)	moderate (70-90%)	unfavourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Biological resource use	happening now	whole area/population (>90%)	very rapid to severe deterioration	very high
Climate change and severe weather	likely in short term (within 4 years)	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Most of site (50-90%) covered (including the most critical parts for important bird species)	No management plan exists but the management planning process has begun	Substantive conservation measures are being implemented but these are not comprehensive and are limited by resources and capacity	low

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest	Montane forest - mixed, Woodland - mixed	70
Shrubland	Bushland & thicket - montane, Scrub - forest, Shrubland - Montane	25
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	Scree, boulders & bare rock	5

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
forestry	100

Land ownership

Its a gazetted government dry land indigenous forest with some pockets of exotic plantations.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Mumoni Hill Forest Reserve (Kenya). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/mumoni-hill-forest-reserve-iba-kenya on 22/11/2024.