Discussion session on freshwater KBAs: a message to the Freshwater Institutional Team

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Discussion session on freshwater KBAs a message
to the Freshwater Institutional Team

• Monday afternoon
• Curtis, Willy, Joel, Henni, Frank, Luciano,
  Harison, Zo, Dave, Wang Hao, Wiggy, Naamal, Rob,
  Franklin, JVR, Cristiano, Pacheco, Jaime,
  Francois, Tom, Simon

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Discussion session on freshwater KBAs a message
to the Freshwater Institutional Team

• 1) Things happening already on Red Listing and
  identifying KBAs for freshwater species through
  IUCN, especially in Africa (fishes, odonates,
  decapods, molluscs, freshwater plants)
• 2) There are already significant amounts of
  freshwater data available from CI regional
  programs (e.g. Madagascar, Venezuela, New
  Caledonia)

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Discussion session on freshwater KBAs a message
to the Freshwater Institutional Team

• 3) Existing CI terrestrial work may already pick
  up some threatened freshwater species in KBAs,
  but not always (e.g. Nicaragua)
• 4) Delineation is clearly complex (e.g. should a
  freshwater KBA include riparian forest?) but not
  qualitatively different from terrestrial
  environments. Important to consider and manage
  watershed issues and threats beyond the site, but
  these should be considered at the corridor level
  (e.g. Mekong dams)