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Site description (2022 baseline):
Site location and context
The IBA includes (Ponta do Sol, Ponta Rincon and Fatima cliffs). It is located northwest of Boa Vista Island, from Ervatão beach, north of Nossa Senhora de Fátima, to the cliff area of Poderoso. It includes the cliffs of Ervatão beach and part of the upper platform of Chã de Ervatão, the sector Pico Vigia and Curral Preto, the wide coastal platform (low island) at the beginning of the mountain massif and the cliffs and fossil dunes present from Farol de Ponta do Sol to close to the Poderoso stream.
The main threat is in relation to the conservation of nesting seabirds: red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), the main predators being humans (the proximit
The are is important for breeding of Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), Iago sparrow (Passer iagoensis), Cape Verde kestrel (Falco tinnunculus neglectus) and Red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus).
Ministry of Agriculture and Environment; Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment in Boa Vista; Protect Area Office of Boa Vista; MAVA Foundation; BirdLife Internantion; Cabeolica; Universidade de Barcelona . Site identified during the MAVA funded project: "Conserving the seabirds of Cabo Verde" (2020 - 2022). Partner consultation supported by Ana Veiga (BirdLife Project Manager, Cabo Verde) and Jonathan Handley (BirdLife, UK). Site identification supported by: Samir Martins (BIOS.CV), Herculano Dinis (Projecto Vitó), Albert Taxonera (Associação Projeto Biodiversidade), Marcos Hernández (Associação Projeto Biodiversidade), Isabel Fortes (Biosfera), Catelene Monteiro (Biosfera), Pedro Geraldes (SPEA ), Ariana Cabral (Lantuna), Jacob González-Solís (University of Barcelona), Teresa Militão (University of Barcelona), Vitor Paiva (University of Coimbra).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ponta do Sol Natural Reserve (Cape Verde). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/ponta-do-sol-natural-reserve--iba-cape-verde on 23/11/2024.
