8 thoughts on “Cinnamon-headed Green-pigeon (Treron fulvicollis): Revise global status?”
The species has only been confirmed for modern records in Thailand in Koh Patong on the west coast of Phang-nga province, where the first record was obtained in 2003 and the most recent record was made in 2015. Khoh Prathong, however, is not yet established as an official conservation area; it is still regarded as a proposed national park. Moreover, oil palm plantations are still replacing some parts of Koh Prathong’s beach forest and freshwater swamp forest.
So, the area was likely the last stronghold for the species in the country and it appears to be threatened.
The conservation status of Treron fulvicollis in Thailand is still considered as CR. VU is a proper global conservation status in my opinion.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. We greatly appreciate the time and effort invested in commenting. The window for consultation is now closed and we are unable to accept any more comments until 18 July 2022. We will now analyse and interpret the new information, and we will post a preliminary decision on this species’ Red List status on this page on 18 July 2022, when discussions will re-open.
Based on available information, our preliminary proposal for the 2022.2 Red List would be to adopt the proposed classifications outlined in the initial forum discussion.
There is now a period for further comments until the final deadline on 24 July 2022, after which the recommended categorisations will be put forward to IUCN. The final 2022.2 Red List categories will be published on the BirdLife and IUCN websites in December 2022, following further checking of information relevant to the assessments by both BirdLife and IUCN.
The following comment was submitted by James Eaton on 11 July 2022, while the Forum discussion was temporarily closed:
“I broadly agree with the assessment, as though it’s suffered an obvious and major decline and habitat loss in Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, vast areas still remain in Kalimantan, at least, with several areas reasonably well protected.”
In Nias Island the species was not found by Rheind et al. 2020 (already a reference of the proposal), I have also not recorded the species in any habitat during several visits between 2016 and 2019 A single live male was taken off trappers in 2019 and local people comment that the species is tough to find nowadays and is only found in remote areas of dense forest. This observation confirms that the species is likely restricted to certain suitable habitat and that an ongoing hunting pressure still remain in this location. There is little doubt that two out of three subspecies are severely threatened.
The species probably remain locally common in the large protected areas in the lowlands of Central and South Kalimantan (i.e. Sebangau, Tanjung Puting) and Sumatra (i.e. Berbak-Sembilang, Way Kambas) but much of the lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo is already logged and heavily degraded by fires. The species seem locally common in the lowlands of eastern Johore (Peninsular Malaysia), with recent records from several forest reserves and protected areas, but deforestation in east Johore, in my view a stronghold for the species, is expected to continue with agricultural expansion (for gold mines, oil palm and coconut). There is little information on the occurrence of the species in other eastern states of Peninsular Malaysia. The species is a rare and localised resident in Singapore (lowland secondary forest and mangroves in Ubin Island)
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. We greatly appreciate the time and effort invested by so many people in commenting. The window for consultation is now closed and we are unable to accept any more comments. We will analyse and interpret the new information, and we will post a final decision on this species’ Red List status on this page on 1 August 2022.
Recommended categorisation to be put forward to IUCN
The final categorisation for this species has not changed. Cinnamon-headed Green-pigeon is recommended to be listed as Vulnerable under Criteria A2cd+3cd+4cd.
Many thanks for everyone who contributed to the 2022.2 GTB Forum process. The final 2022.2 Red List categories will be published on the BirdLife and IUCN websites in December 2022, following further checking of information relevant to the assessments by both BirdLife and IUCN.
The species has only been confirmed for modern records in Thailand in Koh Patong on the west coast of Phang-nga province, where the first record was obtained in 2003 and the most recent record was made in 2015. Khoh Prathong, however, is not yet established as an official conservation area; it is still regarded as a proposed national park. Moreover, oil palm plantations are still replacing some parts of Koh Prathong’s beach forest and freshwater swamp forest.
So, the area was likely the last stronghold for the species in the country and it appears to be threatened.
The conservation status of Treron fulvicollis in Thailand is still considered as CR. VU is a proper global conservation status in my opinion.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. We greatly appreciate the time and effort invested in commenting. The window for consultation is now closed and we are unable to accept any more comments until 18 July 2022. We will now analyse and interpret the new information, and we will post a preliminary decision on this species’ Red List status on this page on 18 July 2022, when discussions will re-open.
Preliminary proposal
Based on available information, our preliminary proposal for the 2022.2 Red List would be to adopt the proposed classifications outlined in the initial forum discussion.
There is now a period for further comments until the final deadline on 24 July 2022, after which the recommended categorisations will be put forward to IUCN. The final 2022.2 Red List categories will be published on the BirdLife and IUCN websites in December 2022, following further checking of information relevant to the assessments by both BirdLife and IUCN.
The following comment was submitted by James Eaton on 11 July 2022, while the Forum discussion was temporarily closed:
“I broadly agree with the assessment, as though it’s suffered an obvious and major decline and habitat loss in Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, vast areas still remain in Kalimantan, at least, with several areas reasonably well protected.”
In Nias Island the species was not found by Rheind et al. 2020 (already a reference of the proposal), I have also not recorded the species in any habitat during several visits between 2016 and 2019 A single live male was taken off trappers in 2019 and local people comment that the species is tough to find nowadays and is only found in remote areas of dense forest. This observation confirms that the species is likely restricted to certain suitable habitat and that an ongoing hunting pressure still remain in this location. There is little doubt that two out of three subspecies are severely threatened.
The species probably remain locally common in the large protected areas in the lowlands of Central and South Kalimantan (i.e. Sebangau, Tanjung Puting) and Sumatra (i.e. Berbak-Sembilang, Way Kambas) but much of the lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo is already logged and heavily degraded by fires. The species seem locally common in the lowlands of eastern Johore (Peninsular Malaysia), with recent records from several forest reserves and protected areas, but deforestation in east Johore, in my view a stronghold for the species, is expected to continue with agricultural expansion (for gold mines, oil palm and coconut). There is little information on the occurrence of the species in other eastern states of Peninsular Malaysia. The species is a rare and localised resident in Singapore (lowland secondary forest and mangroves in Ubin Island)
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. We greatly appreciate the time and effort invested by so many people in commenting. The window for consultation is now closed and we are unable to accept any more comments. We will analyse and interpret the new information, and we will post a final decision on this species’ Red List status on this page on 1 August 2022.
Recommended categorisation to be put forward to IUCN
The final categorisation for this species has not changed. Cinnamon-headed Green-pigeon is recommended to be listed as Vulnerable under Criteria A2cd+3cd+4cd.
Many thanks for everyone who contributed to the 2022.2 GTB Forum process. The final 2022.2 Red List categories will be published on the BirdLife and IUCN websites in December 2022, following further checking of information relevant to the assessments by both BirdLife and IUCN.