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Development of the database on the threatened
biodiversity in Central Asia with examples of
migratory vertebrates

• Elena A. Kreuzberg, Elena A. Bykova, Eleanor J.
  Milner-Gulland, Stephen Ling

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PROJECT 99-1483 Correlates of Extinction Risk
for Central Asian Biodiversity
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Project participants
Imperial College London, UK Institute of Zoology,
UZ IUCN - World Conservation Union, CH Institute
of Zoology, KZ Swedish Threatened Species Unit,
SE Institute of Deserts, TM Institute of Zoology
and Parasitology, TJ Institute of Botany, KZ
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Objectives

• To integrate the Red Listing system used by the
  Central Asian countries into the global framework
  IUCN-SSC.
• To develop a system for assessing the threat of
  extinction of Central Asian species at 3 levels
  national, regional and global.

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Objectives

• To use archive data to correlates extinctions of
  the listed species at the national, regional and
  global scales.
• To product of GIS for extinction risk.
• To initiate and support a collaborative network
  of CA scientists.

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The main ecosystems of CA
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Threatened Species Database

• Country
• Taxonomy
• Scientific name, Russian name,
• English name
• 4. Categories and criteria
• Red List IUCN-SSC
• 5. National threatened status
• Life-history characteristics
• body mass, generation time,
• fecundity

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Threatened Species Database

• 7. Environment landscape zone, biotope,
  trophic resources, specific environment
  requirements)
• Range (sub)populations,
• distribution, range area,
• degree of fragmentation,
• dispersal distances,
• contiguous
• 9. Number current number,
• (sub)population trend,
• carrying capacity

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Threatened Species Database

• Threats time, degree,
• probability, diapason
• 9. Conservation measures
• accepted measure,
• necessary measure
• 10. References
• Contact details of
• expert name,
• institution, post address,
• phone, fax, e-mail

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Example 1

• Saiga tatarica tatarica, Saiga
• Mammalia, Bovidae

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Saiga tatarica tatarica

• Distributional ZU KZ TM RU
• Subpopulations Betpak-dala, Ustyurt, Ural
• Landscape desert, semi-desert, steppe
• Dispersal 200-1200 km
• Range area 300,000-350,000 sq.km
• Current number 178,000

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Saiga tatarica tatarica
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Saiga tatarica tatarica

• Population trend decline from 1974 (especially
  in 1999-2000)
• Limiting factors poaching, disease, habitat
  degradation, human disturbance, natural
  fluctuations (2x)
• Conservation measure Hunting prohibition from
  1998-1999, listed in 1999 Red Data Book of
  Turkmenistan and 2000 IUCN Red List