YE038
North coastal plain: airport to Di Selmeho / Ghubbah (Socotra)


Site description (2014 baseline):

Key biodiversity
An important breeding area for Cream-coloured Coursers, Saunders’s Terns (c200 pairs) and marine turtles.

Habitat and land use
Coastal dunes, flats and grazed land with patches of dwarf shrubland dominated by Zygophyllum, Suaeda and Pulicaria (which occupies an area of c30 km2) and is the habitat in which the cisticola occurs.

Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Threats: coastal development; overgrazing


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: North coastal plain: airport to Di Selmeho / Ghubbah (Socotra) (Yemen). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/north-coastal-plain:-airport-to-di-selmeho--ghubbah-(socotra)-iba-yemen on 24/12/2024.