Stung / Prasat Balang (Cambodia) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Stung / Prasat Balang

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2003 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
Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis	CR	resident	2002	rare	A1, A3
Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus	NT	non-breeding	2002	abundant	A1

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2003) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2003. The most recent assessment (2009) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2009	very unfavourable	high	negligible
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
no	habitat	medium

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Forest	poor (40-69%)	poor (40-69%)	very unfavourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Agricultural expansion and intensification	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high
Biological resource use	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high
Transportation and service corridors	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Some of site covered (10-49%)	No management planning has taken place	Very little or no conservation action taking place	negligible

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rice paddies, Perennial crops, orchards and groves, Abandoned farmland, disturbed ground, Small settlements, rural gardens	-
Forest	Semi-evergreen rain forest (tropical), Lowland evergreen rain forest (tropical), Dry evergreen forest (tropical)	-
Grassland	Edaphic grassland, Secondary grassland	-
Shrubland	Secondary scrub	-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-
fisheries/aquaculture	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Stung / Prasat Balang (Cambodia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/stung--prasat-balang-iba-cambodia on 23/11/2024.