â€" We report the diet and the fate of seeds ingested by a family group of Salvin’s Curassow {Mitu salvini) in Colombian Amazon. The study group consumed 123 plant species from 41 families. Of these, 106 species provided fruits, 21 seeds, 7 cotyledons, 19 flowers, and 9 leaves. Many species of invertebrates and vertebrates were also consumed. During the 14 months about 70% of the diet of each individual was composed of fruits. However, there was considerable temporal variation in diet composition and fruits were not always the most exploited item. Salvin’s Curassow acts mainly as a seed predator (67% of the species eaten) on seeds longer than 5 mm but as a seed disperser (28% of the species eaten) for seeds shorter than 5 mm long, which were only rarely and opportunistically exploited. The remaining fruits eaten (5% of the species consumed) were neither dispersed nor predated. As a result of our study, we propose that Salvin’s Curassows are mainly seed predators because most seeds ingested by the study group were preyed upon, and seed size was critical in determining seed fate.

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In Colombia, a country of great cultural and ecosystemic heterogeneity, there are many conservation strategies beyond protected areas that stem from both legal frameworks and local territorial processes. After much debate, these have been termed Complementary Conservation Strategies (CCSs), and their identification and recognition are necessary to achieving the country's conservation objectives. At the international level, under the leadership of the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas, progress has been made in defining criteria to identify 'other effective area-based conservation measures' (OECMs), and the uptake of these guidelines by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is expected during the next Conference of the Parties meeting (COP 14). In Colombia, we have run the draft criteria for OECMs against several case studies to identify the main similarities and differences. This paper presents in detail three CCS case studies that show whether and to what degree these include elements relevant to OECMs. The criteria and principal considerations regarding them are analysed. We conclude that, given the similarities, the international debate provides an opportunity to identify, recognise, report and enhance these strategies in Colombia.