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The threatened Rufous Limestone Babbler Gypsophila calcicola—not a quarry species, but a “quarried species”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2021

PHILIP D. ROUND Open the ORCID record for PHILIP D. ROUND [Opens in a new window] ,
NARUEMON TANTIPISANUH ,
KRAIRAT EIAMAMPAI  and
NORBERTO ASENSIO Open the ORCID record for NORBERTO ASENSIO [Opens in a new window]
PHILIP D. ROUND*
Affiliation:
Animal Systematics and Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok10400, Thailand.
NARUEMON TANTIPISANUH
Affiliation:
Conservation Ecology Program, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, 10150, Thailand. Conservation Ecology Program, Pilot Plant Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok10150, Thailand.
KRAIRAT EIAMAMPAI
Affiliation:
Wildlife Research Bureau, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Phaholyothin Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok10900, Thailand.
NORBERTO ASENSIO
Affiliation:
Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Phuthamonthon 4, Nakhon Pathom73170, Thailand Present address: Department of Social Psychology and Methodology of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of the Basque Country, 20018Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain.
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*Author for correspondence; email: philip.rou@mahidol.ac.th
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Summary

Limestone karst habitats are threatened globally by quarrying for production of concrete and cement. A significant area of limestone karst shared among the provinces of Saraburi, Lopburi and Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand encompasses the entire global range of a threatened bird taxon, the Rufous Limestone Babbler Gypsophila calcicola. We estimate that 10% of the suitable habitat for this species had already been lost to quarrying by 2020, and the extension of already proposed concessions could increase this to one-quarter, with the total area impacted by proposed future quarrying as great as 273 km2, or one and a half times greater than the entire area thought to support the species, within a few years. Only 2.66 km2 (1.4% of the species’ range) has received formal habitat protection as national park. We propose further surveys of the babbler be incorporated as part of a wider biotic survey of the Saraburi Group Limestones, leading to the development of an integrated management and zoning plan that takes account of the distributional knowledge of other threatened endemic taxa of this region.

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South-east AsiaendemismkarstSaraburi Group Limestones
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Research Article
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Bird Conservation International , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 414 - 422
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of BirdLife International

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