An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area ( IBA ) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
12-617: Buromskiy Island is a small island lying 0.6 km (0.37 mi) south of Haswell Island in the Haswell Islands of Antarctica . About 200 m long and 100 m wide, it was discovered and mapped by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson , 1911–14. It was photographed by the Soviet expedition of 1958 and named for N.I. Buromskiy, expedition hydrographer who lost his life in
24-536: A Historic Site or Monument (HSM 7) following a proposal by Russia to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting . [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Buromskiy Island" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . 66°32′S 93°0′E / 66.533°S 93.000°E / -66.533; 93.000 Haswell Island Haswell Island
36-449: A proposal by Russia to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting . A stone with an inscribed plaque commemorates Ivan Khmara , a driver-mechanic with the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition , who died while performing his duties on fast ice on 21 January 1956. The stone was originally erected at nearby Mabus Point, but was moved to Buromskiy Island in 1974 because of construction activity at Mirny. Ivan Khmara's Stone has been designated
48-660: A specific request from the European Economic Community , Birdlife International drew up a list of sites to be protected as a matter of priority. In 1989, a repertoire of IBAs of Europe was released. At first the official name of this type of site was Important Bird Area , hence the acronym IBA, then at the BirdLife World Congress held in Canada in 2014 it was decided to adopt the name Important Bird and Biodiversity Area , without changing
60-462: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Important Bird Area IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife International . There are over 13,000 IBAs worldwide. These sites are small enough to be entirely conserved and differ in their character, habitat or ornithological importance from the surrounding habitat. In the United States the program is administered by
72-475: Is a unique site for almost all bird species breeding in East Antarctica, including Antarctic petrels , Antarctic fulmars , Cape petrels , snow petrels , Wilson's storm petrels , south polar skuas and Adélie penguins . To the south-east of the island, there is a large colony of emperor penguins breeding on fast ice . The island and the adjacent emperor penguin rookery site are protected under
84-556: Is the largest of the Haswell Islands , lying off the coast of Antarctica, about 3 kilometres (1.5 nmi) north of Mabus Point in Queen Mary Land . It was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition , 1911–14, under Mawson , and named by him for Professor William A. Haswell , a zoologist at Sydney University and a member of the expedition's Advisory Committee. The island
96-485: The Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.127. The same 500 ha site, comprising the whole island as well as the adjoining sea ice where the emperor penguins breed, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International . The area also supports five species of seals , including Ross seals . This Queen Mary Land location article
108-483: The National Audubon Society . Often IBAs form part of a country's existing protected area network, and so are protected under national legislation. Legal recognition and protection of IBAs that are not within existing protected areas varies within different countries. Some countries have a National IBA Conservation Strategy, whereas in others protection is completely lacking. In 1985, following
120-630: The Antarctic in 1957. It lies 2.7 km north of Mabus Point , the site of Russia's Mirny Station . The island holds a cemetery for several citizens of the Soviet Union , Czechoslovakia , the German Democratic Republic and Switzerland who died in the performance of their duties while serving as members of Soviet and Russian Antarctic expeditions. It has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 9) following
132-514: The acronym. IBAs are determined by an internationally agreed set of criteria. Specific IBA thresholds are set by regional and national governing organizations. To be listed as an IBA, a site must satisfy at least one of the following rating criteria: The site qualifies if it is known, estimated or thought to hold a population of a species categorized by the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered , Endangered or Vulnerable . In general,
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#1732802117762144-505: The regular presence of a Critical or Endangered species, irrespective of population size, at a site may be sufficient for a site to qualify as an IBA. For Vulnerable species, the presence of more than threshold numbers at a site is necessary to trigger selection. The site forms one of a set selected to ensure that all restricted-range species of an Endemic Bird Area (EBA) or a Secondary Area (SA) are present in significant numbers in at least one site and preferably more. The site forms one of
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