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Summary |
Aves &
Conservación (A&C) / BirdLife in Ecuador is a non-governmental
organization. A&C and their collaborators have collected 90.000 records
of 340.000 bird individuals. There are 20.000 additional records already
published. These data are neither available in the IABIN format, nor
accessible via Internet. Altogether, these data contain information on 1.200 species,
75 % of the country’s avifauna. They were collected in almost all
provinces, bio-geographical regions, habitats, and altitudinal ranges of
Ecuador. The availability of this information is fundamental for
optimizing natural resources management. Users will be conservation
organizations, development agencies, and governmental institutions.
Furthermore, A&C is creating of the Ecuadorian Network for the
Monitoring of Vertebrates (MOVE-EC), a group of organizations interested
in using an innovative and standardized monitoring method. The MOVE-EC
Network will collect thousands of records from several vertebrate groups
each year, which will be stored in a centralized database. A&C will
incorporate its data in the IABIN database and, furthermore, will
actively promote that other users of the MOVE-EC database will also
share their data. This will guarantee the long-term increase of records
and the updating of the information on each particular species. |
