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- ItemOpen AccessAssessing the conservation value of wetlands and waterbirds with a focus on the winter rainfall region of South Africa(2012) Harebottle, Douglas Michael; Underhill, LesThis thesis deals with the development and application of a new tool to assess the conservation significance of wetland avifauna. Termed the Waterbird Conservation Value (WCV) score, this method sums the proportion of each species' count relative to the global 1% threshold level for each species; the value obtained measures the overall conservation importance of the wetland to waterbirds.