Tso Kar Basin (India) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Tso Kar Basin

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2004 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-necked Crane Grus nigricollis	NT	breeding	2004	present	A1

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2004) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2004. The most recent assessment (2013) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2013	favourable	medium	negligible
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
no	habitat	-

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Wetlands (inland)	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Agricultural expansion and intensification	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low
Biological resource use	past (and unlikely to return) and no longer limiting	small area/few individuals (<10%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low

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 planning has taken place	Unknown	negligible

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1987	Tso Kar	Sanctuary	-

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Wetlands (inland)		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	-
tourism/recreation	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Tso Kar Basin (India). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/tso-kar-basin-iba-india on 25/11/2024.