Globally threatened birds in Tanzania

Hi all

These maps, probably better than anything else, clearly demonstrate just how important Tanzania is for those birds designated globally threatened by IUCN / BirdLife (+ Beesley's Lark but minus our two new cisticolas and a few other new species waiting in the wings as it were)

The gaps are more likely our knowledge gaps rather than real ones. Just about the whole country qualifies !!

The GT champ squares list is quite interesting and suggests there are simply too many GT species !! we we have many more designated as Near Threatened how will we justify all this to Government ? how will we manage the next IBA book ? what will we have to leave out ?

and

we have never created any IBAs from such categories as biome-restricted.

this is how special Tanzania is.

Neil