1. Development of the database on the threatened biodiversity in Central Asia with examples of migratory vertebrates Elena A. Kreuzberg, Elena A. Bykova, Eleanor J. Milner-Gulland, Stephen Ling

2. PROJECT 99-1483 Correlates of Extinction Risk for Central Asian Biodiversity

4. Project participants: Imperial College London, UK Institute of Zoology, UZ IUCN - World Conservation Union, CH Institute of Zoology, KZ Swedish Threatened Species Unit, SE Institute of Deserts, TM Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, TJ Institute of Botany, KZ

5. Objectives To integrate the Red Listing system used by the Central Asian countries into the global framework IUCN-SSC. To develop a system for assessing the threat of extinction of Central Asian species at 3 levels: national, regional and global.

6. Objectives To use archive data to correlates extinctions of the listed species at the national, regional and global scales. To product of GIS for extinction risk. To initiate and support a collaborative network of CA scientists.

7. The main ecosystems of CA

9. Threatened Species Database: 1.Country 2.Taxonomy 3.Scientific name, Russian name, English name 4. Categories and criteria Red List IUCN-SSC 5. National threatened status 6.Life-history characteristics: body mass, generation time, fecundity

10. Threatened Species Database: 7. Environment: landscape zone, biotope, trophic resources, specific environment requirements) 8.Range: (sub)populations, distribution, range area, degree of fragmentation, dispersal distances, contiguous 9. Number: current number, (sub)population trend, carrying capacity

11. Threatened Species Database: 8.Threats: time, degree, probability, diapason 9. Conservation measures: accepted measure, necessary measure 10. References 12.Contact details of expert: name, institution, post address, phone, fax, e-mail

12. Example 1 Saiga tatarica tatarica, Saiga Mammalia, Bovidae

13. Saiga tatarica tatarica Distributional: ZU KZ TM RU Subpopulations: Betpak-dala, Ustyurt, Ural Landscape: desert, semi-desert, steppe Dispersal: 200-1200 km Range area: 300,000-350,000 sq.km Current number: 178,000

14. Saiga tatarica tatarica

15. Population trend: decline from 1974 (especially in 1999-2000) Limiting factors: poaching, disease, habitat degradation, human disturbance, natural fluctuations (2x) Conservation measure: Hunting prohibition from 1998-1999, listed in 1999 Red Data Book of Turkmenistan and 2000 IUCN Red List Saiga tatarica tatarica