Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important 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:
1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.
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 |
favourable |
very high |
low |
Whole site assessed? |
State assessed by |
Accuracy of information |
|
no |
habitat |
- |
|
Year |
Protected Area |
Designation |
% overlap with IBA |
1975 |
Defensores del Chaco
|
Parque Nacional - Publico |
100
|
2001 |
Gran Chaco
|
Reservas de la Biosfera - Publico |
100
|
2005 |
Gran Chaco
|
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve |
100
|
2008 |
Lote N° 1
|
Reserva Natural - Privado |
<1 |
Habitat1 |
Habitat detail |
% of IBA |
Forest |
Tropical deciduous forest, Tropical semi-deciduous forest |
72 |
Shrubland |
Scrub |
23 |
1.
IUCN Habitat classification.
Land use |
% of IBA |
agriculture |
5 |
nature conservation and research |
- |
tourism/recreation |
- |
Departamento de Áreas Protegidas de la Dirección de Protección y Conservación de la Biodiversidad de la Secretaría del Ambiente.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Parque Nacional Defensores del Chaco (Paraguay). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/parque-nacional-defensores-del-chaco-iba-paraguay on 22/11/2024.