Botswana’s Protected Important Bird Areas Status and Trends Report 2010

In 1998, BirdLife Botswana (the BirdLife partner in Botswana) identifi ed and documented 12 sites as Important
Bird Areas (IBAs) of Botswana. However, monitoring efforts at these sites have lacked adequate co-ordination and
the success of management and conservation efforts have, therefore, been diffi cult to gauge. In 2007, BirdLife
Botswana, together with seven other African countries (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tunisia, Zambia
and Zimbabwe) benefi ted from European Commission funding to pilot a reporting mechanism for biodiversity
through the monitoring of birds at IBAs using the Pressure-State-Response model adapted from the global IBA
monitoring framework. In Botswana, the target sites for the project are IBAs overlapping protected areas, of which
there are seven: Chobe, Linyanti Swamps, Okavango Delta, Makgadikgadi Pans, Central Kalahari Game Reserve,
Mannyelanong and Kalahari Transfrontier Park IBAs.