The Biodiversity of Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve - Birdlife ...

Note: data for protected areas other than Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve taken from Eames et al.
(2001).
BHH NR also compares favorably with protected areas of Priority Landscape CA1 in the Greater
Truong Son Ecoregion (Figures 2-4.), in terms of the number of priority taxa it supports. For
instance, BHH NR supports 21 of the priority bird taxa and 10 of the priority mammal taxa of the
Priority Landscape. Consequently, BHH NR ranks second out of all of the protected areas in
Priority Landscape CA1, regarding its number of priority mammal and bird taxa. BHH NR ranks
relatively low in terms of the number of priority reptile taxa, although this may reflect the
difficulty of accessing reptile data rather than actual trends. These rankings should be treated with
caution since data were taken from a 2003 publication. In addition, the biodiversity of the other
protected areas in the analysis is now likely to be better known and therefore, many of them may
rank as highly as Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve. However, although this means that the forests
of Bac Huong Hoa may be relatively less important than the analysis suggests, it does not affect
the conclusion that BHH NR is of high conservation importance for the priority taxa of Priority
Landscape CA1.
Number of priority taxa
25
20
15
10
5
0
PD BN WQ QN KT KP KK KC XS PA DP DA BH
Protected areas
Figure 2. Number of priority mammal taxa in protected areas in Priority Landscape CA1.
Number of priority taxa
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
PD BM BN QN KT KP KK KC XS PA DP DA BH
Protected areas
Figure 3. Number of priority bird taxa in protected areas in Priority Landscape CA1.
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