Important Bird Areas Of Maharashtra: Priority Sites for Conservation - Softcover

Asad Rahmani, Zafar-Ul Islam, Raju Kasam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198098685 ISBN 13: 9780198098683

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This volume is part of a series of books on important bird areas (IBAs) of specific states, which is an extension of Important Bird Areas in India: Priority Sites for Conservation (2004) that described 466 IBAs for India. This book provides comprehensive information about the IBAs in the state of Maharashtra. As a part of the IBAs series, this book has up-to-date scientific information on twenty important sites which need conservation attention. Also contains information on seven additional sites that have been identified by using the global IBA criteria set by BirdLife International, UK.

About this title

About the Author:

Asad R. Rahmani is currently Director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). He has written more than 100 research papers for national and international journals, five books, and numerous popular articles and book reviews. He is Principal Investigator of many prestigious projects of the BNHS, including the Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme of BirdLife International and BNHS. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of the BNHS and Editor of Hornbill and Mistnet. Zafar-ul Islam is a Field Biologist in International Wildlife Conservation. His primary research areas include ecology and biology of globally threatened species such as Houbara, Arabian Leopard, Arabian Oryx, Sand and Mountain Gazelles, and threatened birds found in India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0198098685
• ISBN 13: 9780198098683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182