La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	The Namba mountains: new hope for Afromontane forest birds in Angola
Auteurs :	Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Martim Melo, Auteur ; Alexandre Vaz, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Bird Conservation International (23(2) JUN 2013)
Article en page(s) :	159-167
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Afromontane forest is the most localised and threatened habitat type in Angola. For the past 40 years the estimate of the area covered by this habitat in Angola has been c.200 ha. At present, 85 ha remain at Mt Moco, the most important known site to date. This habitat holds 20 bird taxa of conservation significance but some are now rare or absent at Mt Moco. Given the small extent of forest, its high conservation value and the severe human impacts on it, finding new areas of Afromontane forest is a high conservation priority. With this objective, we visited the Namba mountains in July 2010, where c. 100 ha was thought to remain in the 1970s, to establish the extent and condition of forest there and to conduct bird surveys. We found closed-canopy Afromontane forest with an abundance of Podocarpus latifolius and little human disturbance. We recorded 89 bird species, 56 in or adjacent to forest and including all

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