This study was carried out from 2013 to 2014 in Kafa biosphere reserve, southwest Ethiopia. We investigated and documented population status of bird diversity and the existing local community knowledge, attitude and practice associated with ecological significance to conservation of avian diversity. Point observation method was used to collect data on distribution and diversity of birds. Data were analyzed using descriptive Statistics, Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA. Questionnaire surveys were also made to collect qualitative data. A total of 474 birds fit in to 10 orders and 25 families were recorded. There were 398 residents, 56 winter migratory, 15 local migratory and 5 summer migratory birds. Shannon-winner indices of bird diversity for Kafa biosphere reserve, Decha, Chena, Dadiben, Gojeb wetland and Boka were 2.41, 2.71, 2.48, 2.24 and 1.68, while its evenness indices showed that 0.85, 0.94, 0.92, 0.90 and 0.86 respectively. We concluded that species richness, abundance and diversity reach higher values in larger and structurally more heterogeneous forest. Nine (31%) of the locals perceived that, avian conservation has ecological significance, while 20 (68%) were responded, is not essential, being depredators of chickens and crop pests. conservation of birds and its habitat should be integrated with the knowledge and practice of locals to establish participatory avian conservation.
| Published in | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Volume 1, Issue 2) |
| DOI | 10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11 |
| Page(s) | 7-13 |
| Creative Commons |
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Copyright |
Copyright © The Author(s), 2016. Published by Science Publishing Group |
Kafa, Anthropogenic Pressure, Perception, Biosphere Reserve, Population Status
| [1] | Aerts R, Lerouge F, November E, Lens L, Hermy M, Muys B. 2008. Land rehabilitation and the conservation of birds in a degraded Afromontane landscape in northern Ethiopia. Biodiv. Conserv. 17: 53-69. |
| [2] | Bekele T. 2003. The potential of Bonga forest for certification - A case study. National Stakeholders Workshop on Forest Certification. pp. 2-23. |
| [3] | Bibby J, Burgess N, Hill A. 2000. Bird Census Techniques. 2nd edition. Academic Press, London. pp. 698-701. |
| [4] | BirdLife International. 2004. State of the world’s birds 2004: indicators for our changing world. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International. pp. 1-76. |
| [5] | BirdLife International. 2010. State of the World’s Birds. Birdlife International, Cambridge, UK. 104 (3): 168-701. |
| [6] | Dennis R. 2007. Literature Survey on biological data and research carried out in Bonga area, Kafa, Ethiopia. pp 5-8. |
| [7] | Elisabeth Dresen. 2011. Climate Protection and Preservation of Primary Forests: A Management Model using the Wild Coffee Forests in Ethiopia as an Example. Pp 1-250. |
| [8] | Elisabeth Dresen. 2015. Final Report Mapping and analysis of wetlands and rivers at Kafa Biosphere Reserve. Pp 1-220. |
| [9] | EWNHS. 1996. Important Bird Areas of Ethiopia. A First Inventory. Ethiopian Wildlife & Natural History Society. Addis Ababa. pp. 1-279. |
| [10] | Girma M, Yosef M, Afework B. 2011. A comparison of terrestrial bird community structure in the undisturbed and disturbed areas of the Abijata Shalla lakes national park, Ethiopia. Intern. J. of Bio. Conserv. 3 (9): 389-404. |
| [11] | Hockey P, Dean W, Ryan P. 2005. Roberts - Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town. pp. 1-123. |
| [12] | Lepage D. 2006. Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World- Ethiopia. http://www.bsc-eoc.org. Accessed on 2/08/2015. |
| [13] | Lepage D. 2013. Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World- Ethiopia. http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=et&list=clements. Accessed on 6/07/2015. |
| [14] | Malcolm J, Liu C, Neilson R, Hansen L, Hannah L. 2006. Global warming and extinctions of endemic species from biodiversity hotspots. Conserv. Biol. 20 (2): 538. |
| [15] | NABU. 2013. Manual for youth to youth training raisisng environmental awareness. Training manual. Pp 1-110. |
| [16] | Olschewski R, Tscharntke P, Benı´tez S, Schwarze A, Klein M. 2006. Economic evaluation of pollination services comparing coffee landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia. Ecol Soc. 11 (1): 7. |
| [17] | Perlo B. 2009. A Field Guide Birds of Eastern Africa. 2nd edition HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. London. pp. 1-301. |
| [18] | Ruida pool Stanvliet and Miguel clusener godt. 2013. Biosphere reserve in Sub Saharan Africa: showcasing sustainable development. Printed and bound by the Government Printing Works Pretoria, South Africa. Pp 1-352. |
| [19] | Schrag A, Zaccagnini M, Calamari N, Canaveli S. 2009. Climate and land-use influences on avifauna in central Argentina: broad-scale patterns and implications of agricultural conversion for biodiversity. Agri. Ecosys. Environ. 132 (1-2): 135-142. |
| [20] | Sekercioglu C. 2007. Bird functional diversity and ecosystem services in tropical forests, agroforests and agricultural areas. J. Ornithol, 153: 153-161. |
| [21] | Shannon C, Weaver W. 1949. Measurement of diversity. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. pp. 117. |
| [22] | Shannon C. 1948. A mathematical theory of communications. Bell Systems Techn. J. 27: 379–423. |
| [23] | Shimelis A, Afework B. 2008. Species composition, relative abundance and distribution of bird fauna of riverine and wetland habitats of Infranz and Yiganda at southern tip of Lake Tana, Ethiopia. Trop. Ecol. 49 (2): 199-209. |
| [24] | Sigrun L, Michael J. 2011. Development of management and business plan for ecotourism in Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Bonga, Ethiopia. pp. 5-6. |
| [25] | Sisay N. 2008. Flora Biodiversity Assessment in Bonga, Boginda and Mankira Forest, Kafa, Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, Submitted to PPP Project. pp. 9-10. |
| [26] | UNESCO. 2016. UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). http://www.unesco.org/mab/mabProg.shtml; Accessed 06.24.2016. |
| [27] | USAID. 2008. Ethiopia Biodiversity and tropical forests 118/119 Assessment. pp. 17. |
| [28] | Watson J, Rao A, Kang L, Xie Y. 2012. Climate change adaptation planning for biodiversity conservation: A review. Adv. Clim. Change Res. 3 (1). pp. 1-11. |
APA Style
Weldemariam Tesfahunegny, Tesfu Fekensa, Getachew Mulualem. (2016). Avifauna Diversity in Kafa Biosphere Reserve: Knowledge and Perception of Villagers in Southwest Ethiopia. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1(2), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11
ACS Style
Weldemariam Tesfahunegny; Tesfu Fekensa; Getachew Mulualem. Avifauna Diversity in Kafa Biosphere Reserve: Knowledge and Perception of Villagers in Southwest Ethiopia. Ecol. Evol. Biol. 2016, 1(2), 7-13. doi: 10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11
Share This Article
Twitter
Linked In
Facebook
Copy
Download@article{10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11,
author = {Weldemariam Tesfahunegny and Tesfu Fekensa and Getachew Mulualem},
title = {Avifauna Diversity in Kafa Biosphere Reserve: Knowledge and Perception of Villagers in Southwest Ethiopia},
journal = {Ecology and Evolutionary Biology},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
pages = {7-13},
doi = {10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11},
eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.eeb.20160102.11},
abstract = {This study was carried out from 2013 to 2014 in Kafa biosphere reserve, southwest Ethiopia. We investigated and documented population status of bird diversity and the existing local community knowledge, attitude and practice associated with ecological significance to conservation of avian diversity. Point observation method was used to collect data on distribution and diversity of birds. Data were analyzed using descriptive Statistics, Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA. Questionnaire surveys were also made to collect qualitative data. A total of 474 birds fit in to 10 orders and 25 families were recorded. There were 398 residents, 56 winter migratory, 15 local migratory and 5 summer migratory birds. Shannon-winner indices of bird diversity for Kafa biosphere reserve, Decha, Chena, Dadiben, Gojeb wetland and Boka were 2.41, 2.71, 2.48, 2.24 and 1.68, while its evenness indices showed that 0.85, 0.94, 0.92, 0.90 and 0.86 respectively. We concluded that species richness, abundance and diversity reach higher values in larger and structurally more heterogeneous forest. Nine (31%) of the locals perceived that, avian conservation has ecological significance, while 20 (68%) were responded, is not essential, being depredators of chickens and crop pests. conservation of birds and its habitat should be integrated with the knowledge and practice of locals to establish participatory avian conservation.},
year = {2016}
}
TY - JOUR T1 - Avifauna Diversity in Kafa Biosphere Reserve: Knowledge and Perception of Villagers in Southwest Ethiopia AU - Weldemariam Tesfahunegny AU - Tesfu Fekensa AU - Getachew Mulualem Y1 - 2016/09/18 PY - 2016 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11 DO - 10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11 T2 - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology JF - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology JO - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology SP - 7 EP - 13 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2575-3762 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.eeb.20160102.11 AB - This study was carried out from 2013 to 2014 in Kafa biosphere reserve, southwest Ethiopia. We investigated and documented population status of bird diversity and the existing local community knowledge, attitude and practice associated with ecological significance to conservation of avian diversity. Point observation method was used to collect data on distribution and diversity of birds. Data were analyzed using descriptive Statistics, Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA. Questionnaire surveys were also made to collect qualitative data. A total of 474 birds fit in to 10 orders and 25 families were recorded. There were 398 residents, 56 winter migratory, 15 local migratory and 5 summer migratory birds. Shannon-winner indices of bird diversity for Kafa biosphere reserve, Decha, Chena, Dadiben, Gojeb wetland and Boka were 2.41, 2.71, 2.48, 2.24 and 1.68, while its evenness indices showed that 0.85, 0.94, 0.92, 0.90 and 0.86 respectively. We concluded that species richness, abundance and diversity reach higher values in larger and structurally more heterogeneous forest. Nine (31%) of the locals perceived that, avian conservation has ecological significance, while 20 (68%) were responded, is not essential, being depredators of chickens and crop pests. conservation of birds and its habitat should be integrated with the knowledge and practice of locals to establish participatory avian conservation. VL - 1 IS - 2 ER -
Email: