Developing National Conservation Programmes through the IBA Process

Abstract

Nigussie, A.T. & Dellelegn, Y. 2000. Developing national conservation programmes through the IBA process. Ostrich 71(1 & 2): 162–163.

The history of the Ethiopian Wildlife and Naural History Society (EWNHS) is presented and the background to involvement with BirdLife International and incorporation in the African network as a BirdLife Partner is described. The IBA intitiative has formed the core of the EWNHS BirdLife programme and two years of funding from the European Union has faciliated the launch of a full-scale national IBA inventory and conservation programme. The current state of the analysis of Ethiopia's important sites is presented together with the plan for further site survey work and for action to conserve sites though advocacy and the developmant of local and national capacity to monitor and manage sites.