Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A complex of seven shallow artificial lakes constructed at the bottom of the former Lake Karla.
A site of great importance for migratory and overwintering waterbirds and foraging raptors. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Phalacrocorax pygmeus (wintering),
Aquila clanga (wintering),
Gallinago media (passage).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Threats are from agricultural intensification around the IBA, water-level fluctuations, drainage, groundwater abstraction and surface water abstraction (`Other' threats). There is a plan to build a large reservoir. Part of the area is a candidate SAC.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Reservoirs of former lake Karla (Greece). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/reservoirs-of-former-lake-karla-iba-greece on 23/11/2024.
