Give the Moheli Scops Owl a chance to survive

  • by: Ismail A & Patricia Losch
  • recipient: Dr. Ikililou Dhoinine, President of the Comoros Islands, and Minister of Production, energy, environment, industry & manufacturing Mr. Abdou Nassur Madi to enact a law to declare The Moheli Scops Owl habitat as conservation and ban logging and hunting.
The Mohéli Scops Owl is endemic to a single mountain ridge of island of Mohéli,.This species is divided to two color forms the Brown morph a dark orangey-buff and heavily streaked and vermiculated and the Rufous form which is brighter and with unusually reduced barring and streaks. The two forms have yellow-green eyes, grey legs and black beaks,their population is roughly equivalent to 260 mature individuals because of the small number and the small area The Mohéli Scops Owl considered as Critically Endangered according to the the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Threats are the  disappearing of humid forests which in 1995 only 5 % remained ,the forest converted for subsistence agriculture , under planting, clear-felling and cultivation, and the invasive of exotic plants, and the hunting.

The Mohéli Scops Owl, population is roughly equivalent to 260 mature individuals because of the small number and the small area The Mohéli Scops Owl considered as Critically Endangered according to the the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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