| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | GALLIFORMES | PHASIANIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Lophura ignita | ||||||
| Species Authority: | (Shaw, 1797) | ||||||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Near Threatened ver 3.1 | |||||||||
| Year Published: | 2008 | |||||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | |||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Mahood, S., Butchart, S. | |||||||||
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Justification: As a lowland forest specialist inhabiting a region where logging is rife, this species is thought to be experiencing a moderately rapid population reduction. If it was found to be less tolerant of logged habitat than is currently suspected then it might qualify for uplisting to Vulnerable. |
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| Range Description: | Lophura ignita is known from extreme southern Tenasserim, Myanmar, peninsular Thailand, Peninsular and East Malaysia, Kalimantan, Sumatra and Bangka, Indonesia, and Brunei. It is now rare in peninsular Thailand, and despite there being recent records from Peninsular Malaysian protected areas, its current distribution there is rather poorly known. It is apparently still locally common in Sabah, Kalimantan and on Sumatra, but probably close to extinction on Bangka. There are no recent records from Myanmar. Based on rates of forest loss, it must be declining in lowland Indonesia, and probably also outside well-protected areas in the Thai-Malay peninsula. |
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Native:
Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand
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| Population: | The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as local and sparse to reasonably common (Madge and McGowan 2002). |
| Population Trend: |
Decreasing
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| Habitat and Ecology: | It is a lowland forest specialist, rarely occurring up to 1,000 m. It has been recorded in logged forest, though its tolerance of this habitat type is unknown. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | Forest destruction in the Sundaic lowlands of Indonesia and Malaysia has been extensive (Kalimantan lost nearly 25% of its evergreen forest during 1985-1997, and Sumatra lost almost 30% of its 1985 cover), because of a variety of factors, including the escalation of logging and land conversion, with deliberate targeting of all remaining stands of valuable timber including those inside protected areas, plus forest fires (particularly in 1997-1998), and declines are compounded by trapping for the cage-bird industry. However, the species's use of secondary growth implies that it is not immediately threatened. |
| Conservation Actions: |
Conservation Actions Underway It occurs in a number of protected areas, inculding Krau Wildlife Reserve, Taman Negara National Park, Way Kambas National Park, Tanjung Putting National Park and Khao Luang National Park. Conservation Actions Proposed Survey to assess the size of the population. Regularly monitor the population at selected sites. Asses the effect of hunting across its range. Enforce the protection afforded to the species by protected areas. Protect large areas of unlogged forest in areas where it occurs. Asses the taxonomic status of the highly distinctive races. |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2008. Lophura ignita. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2012. |
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