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IBAs

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs), initially known as Important Bird Areas, are key sites for the conservation of bird species, identified through the BirdLife International IBA programme since 1980s. These sites are small enough to be conserved in their entirety, often form part of a Protected-Area network, and are, as far as possible, different in character or habitat or ornithological importance from the surrounding area. IBAs are well established and recognised as sites of very high biodiversity value and are therefore priorities for conservation attention. The identification of IBAs is based on a set of internationally agreed, standardised criteria. Inventories of IBAs have now been produced for many of the terrestrial, freshwater and marine regions of the world. In 2013 IBAs were renamed from “Important Bird Areas” to “Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas”, to reflect their importance for other species. There are globally over 12,000 sites in more than 200 countries, territories and autonomous regions. IBAs cover terrestrial, marine and freshwater regions. The identification of IBAs is an ongoing process, which involves Birdlife International as well as Birdlife Partners (nationally or regionally-based NGOs which collaborate with Birdlife). When complete, the global network is expected to comprise around 15,000 IBAs covering 7% of the world’s land surface.

In Syria, since the nineties of the last century (1992), the Syrian IBA’s were first listed through the specialized study (Evans, 1994). This identified 24 sites to be as the national IBAs according to Birdlife Criteria with a combined area of 6,300 km² or about 3.5 percent of the country’s area. These are listed in the following Table:

 

No. Arabic Name Site Name IBA Criteria Site Code
1 أبو زاد Abu Zad A1, A2, B2, B3 SY019
2 بحيرة البعث Baath Lake A4i, A4iii SY008
3 بحيرة حمص (قطينة) Bahrat Homs A1, A4i, A4iii SY017
4 بحيرة الأسد Buhayrat al-Assad A1, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 SY007
5 بحيرة الخاتونية Buhayrat al-Khatuniyah B2 SY005
6 بحيرة اللاحة Buhayrat al-Laha B1i SY016
7 حوض الفرات Euphrates valley A1, B2, B3 SY010
8 مرتفعات الجولان Golan Heights A1, A4i, A4iv, B1iv SY024
9 جبل عبد العزيز Jabal Abdul Aziz B2 SY004
10 جبل البلعاس Jabal al-Bilas B2, B3 SY015
11 جبل البشري Jabal al-Bishri B2, B3 SY014
12 جبل الشوح Jabal al-Shuah A3 SY013
13 جبل سيس Jabal Sis A4i, B2, B3 SY021
14 جبل صلنفة Jabal Slenfeh A3, B1iv, B2 SY011
15 جبل الشيخ (حرمون) Mount Hermon A1, A2, A3, B3 SY023
16 رأس العين Ras al-Ayn A1, B2, B3 SY001
17 سبخة الجبول Sabkhat al-Jabboul A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 SY006
18 بادية وجبال تدمر Tadmur desert and mountains A1, A4i, B2 SY018
19 طوال العبا Tual al-‘Abba A1, A4i, B1i, B2 SY003
20 أم الطيور Umm al-Tuyyur A3, B2 SY009
21 وادي العذيب Wadi al-Azib B2, B3 SY012
22 وادي القرن – بُرقش Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 SY020
23 وادي الرد Wadi al-Radd B1i SY002
24 وادي اليرموك Yarmuk valley B2, B3 SY022

While partial work took place at some major IBAs in Syria, the majority of those IBAs were not fully visited since then and were only briefly assessed in 2012 in an exercise that was carried out by SSCW.

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