Title
Bengal Florican Monitoring in Floodplain of the Tonle Sap in 2008-9
Author(s)
Robert van Zalinge, Tom Evans, Son Virak, Hong Chamnan, Ro Borei,Charlotte Packman
Abstract
The Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis is a species of bustard that is Critically Endangered with extinction due to rapid habitat loss and hunting. The majority of the world's population of Bengal Florican is dependent on grasslands located in and near to the floodplain of the Tonle Sap lake. Integrated Farming and Biodiversity Areas (IFBAs) have been set up in such grasslands in order to safeguard a part of the population, to conserve other rare species and to protect the access of local villages to key livelihood resources such as fisheries, agricultural land and pasture. In late 2008 the IFBA network in Kampong Thom was revised by Provincial declaration and now covers 380 km2. Two IFBAs were added in non-breeding areas and one floodplain IFBA was removed. This increased the total area of IFBAs, but the area of breeding habitat included was
reduced significantly.
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