Botswana's Important Bird Areas Status and Trends Report 2011

The Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme was established by BirdLife International as a global
initiative to identify, protect and manage a network of sites that are important for the long
term viability of naturally occurring bird populations, across the geographical range of those
species for which a site based approach is appropriate. In Africa, one of the recent initiatives
of the programme is a project Instituting effective monitoring of Protected Areas (Important
Bird Areas) as a contribution to reducing the rate of biodiversity loss in Africa.