RE: #EasternCurlew uplisted to #CriticallyEndangered by @BirdlifeOz, urgent action must be taken

["Baird, Ian" <>]

The BLA’s Conservation status listings (as cited below) appear to be out of date.

I suggest a good place to go to check the current listing status of a species under Australian legislation is the ‘SPRAT’ website maintained by the Cwlth Dept of Environment. The link is:

http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=847

On that website the Eastern Curlew is Near Threatened in QLD; Vulnerable in the NT and Vulnerable in WA.

To change a listing under the Cwlth’s EPDC listings,  nominations are made to the Threatened Species Scientific Committee. See link at:

http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/nominations

Cheers,

Ian Baird  | Senior Policy  Officer

Phone: +61 2 6207 2336

Nature Conservation Policy | Environment and Planning Directorate | ACT Government

Level 1 North, Dame Pattie Menzies House, 16 Challis Street DICKSON | GPO Box 158 CANBERRA ACT 2601 | www.environment.gov.au

 

From: Martin Butterfield [
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2015 5:29 PM
To: Dr Mark Carey
Cc: Margaret Leggoe; David McDonald personal; CanberraBirds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Fwd: @BirdlifeOz tweeted: #EasternCurlew uplisted to #CriticallyEndangered by @BirdlifeOz, urgent action must be taken

 

Call me awkward, but I'd have thought they'd actually include some supporting detail for such an important recommendation not just a single big-ticket number.  

 

I didn't try too hard to find the document you linked but on searching the BLA site for "Curlew" came up with http://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/eastern-curlew.  That page includes a section on Conservation Status  which when expanded reveals 

​It is a rather large jump from from those ratings to critically endangered!  Or is the BLA Profile woefully out of date?

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

 

On 11 May 2015 at 17:09, Dr Mark Carey <> wrote:

It was pretty easy to find on the BA website. Eastern Curlew has declined by 81.7% over three generations (30 years). Eligible for Critically endangered under IUCN criteria.
 
See: 
http://birdlife.org.au/documents/WMBD-Species-Profiles-2015.pdf
 
http://www.birdlife.org.au/media/long-distance-champions-flying-into-extinction/
 
Also see the researchers who did the analysis: http://www.fullerlab.org/
 
Mark

 

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Thanks Margaret.  

 

Pity BLA couldn't have included http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22693199/0 in their tweet - but that is only rated as  Vulnerable.  So it doesn't help explain why this species is rated at the highest level of concern.

 

Martin

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

 

On 11 May 2015 at 16:50, Margaret Leggoe <> wrote:

Check the IUCN and you will find a reference there. 

Margaret Leggoe 

On Monday, 11 May 2015, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

Is there any background to this?  I have tried to find something on the BLA site , but that cupboard was bare.

 

Martin

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

 

On 11 May 2015 at 16:12, David McDonald (personal) <> wrote:

For info - David

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