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Aves & Conservación
(A&C) – BirdLife Ecuador, has been collaborating with IABIN since 2008
and soon we will provide on-line more than 90,000 bird records (>300,000
individuals) for free. In the scope of the proposed project A&C aims to
digitize information, among others, regarding the taxonomy, biology and
status of 842 of the more than 1,600 bird species of Ecuador. We plan to
complete the information on the remaining species in a second phase of
this project. The availability of this information is fundamental for
optimizing natural resources management. The users will be conservation
organizations, development agencies, and governmental institutions. A&C
is leading the formation of the Ecuadorian Vertebrate Monitoring Network
(MOVE-EC). The information on species will widen the analysis options of
the bird records stored in the corresponding database. A&C will continue
incorporating new information in the SSTN / IABIN database and will
actively promote that other members of the MOVE-EC network will do the
same. This guarantees that the information on species will be updated in
the long-term. The compliance of the proposed activities will be
assessed through five quantifiable and various impact indicators.
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