Salt lakes in the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area (Russia (European))

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Salt lakes in the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

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:

Species	Red List¹	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax	LC	breeding	1989	100-150 breeding pairs	B2

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2007. The most recent assessment (2006) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2006	favourable	high	low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	habitat	medium

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Grassland	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Natural system modifications	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high
Pollution	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	slow but significant deterioration	high
Biological resource use	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management plan exists but the management planning process has begun	Some limited conservation initiatives are in place	low

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1988	Mestoobitaniya lotosa v limane Srednem	Nature Monument	-
1994	Kuban Delta: Group of limans between rivers Kuban & Protoka	Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance	32

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	20
Artificial/Terrestrial	Other urban and industrial areas	5
Forest	Treeline ecotone	5
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-
Marine Intertidal		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
water management	60
agriculture	40
hunting	30
urban/industrial/transport	5

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Salt lakes in the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area (Russia (European)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/salt-lakes-in-the-primorsko-akhtarsk-area-iba-russia-(european) on 23/11/2024.