Author/Editor		Bračko, Franc; Sovinc, Andrej; Štumberger, Borut; Trontelj, Peter; Vogrin, Milan
Title		Rdeči seznam ogroženih ptic gnezdilk Slovenije
Translated title		Red list of endangered breeding birds in Slovenia
Type		članek
Source		Acrocephalus
Vol. and No.		Letnik 15, št. 67
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 166-80
Language		slo
Abstract		The explicitly negative detrimental influence of man on his natural environment is becoming increasingly greater and more aggresive. General decrease in numbers of bird species and even their complete disappearance is talking place at an ever faster rate, and such is also the case in the territoty of Slovenia. The Red List of Endangered Breeding Species in Slovenia has been prepared on the basis of historical ortnithological documentation and the data gathered in the last twenty years, especially those published in the Ornithological Atlas of Slovenia and Acrocephalus, the journal of the Bird Watching and Bird Study of Slovenia. Comparisions with the previous Red List (Gregori, Matvejev 1992) have also been made. Of the 364 species established in Slovenia so far, 219 were breeders. In the current Red List, 130 species appear in various threat status categories and subcategories or 59.4% of all Slovene breeding species. Nine (9) appear in the category of insufficiently known species (K 5). Due to the great geographical and ecological resemblance between Slovenia and Austria, the Slovene Red List is very similar to the one prepared by our neighbour. In spite of seemingly complicated categoties and subcategories, the basic threat status categories are in concurrence with the IUCN scheme. Arrangement of species in different categories seems revelant for the following reasons: because it exposes various causes due to which the breeders of Slovenia are endangered and at the same time stipulates conservation guidelines for each separate species; becaused the definitions of subcategories are at the same time the criteria according to which the species are included in the List, and because the List is in this way adjusted to the specific biogeographical conditions of Slovenia. To preserve the species appearing in category a, conservation within nature reserves (protected areas) should be sufficient. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters.)
Descriptors		BIRDS ECOSYSTEM ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION