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Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

1. Conserve or restore potential habitats in areas of former occurence

1. Compile historical data on habitat preference in each part of the present and historical range

CMS –SC

Range States, IUCN ASG

2. Compile, on the basis of 1.1.1, a catalogue of habitat-favouring management techniques specific to each broad geographical area

CMS- SC

Range States, IUCN ASG

3. On the basis of 1.1.1, supplemented by data on present distribution or possible restoration of these habitats, locate favourable areas in each Range State. To be considered in particular are Atlantic Sahara (Lower Drâa, Dakhla-Adrar Souttouf ), southeastern Algeria (Hoggar, Tassili des Ajjers), the Akle Aouana region in south eastern Mauritania, the Gourma and Ansongo areas and the southeast of Arouane in central Mali, northern Chad, the Sahelian part of Burkina Faso, the Ferlo in northern Senegal, and northwestern Sudan.

Range States

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in these favourable areas to permit recolonisation or reintroduction

Range States

5. Develop management plans for each of these protected areas

Range States

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations

1. Analyse population dynamics and limiting factors of any remnant populations. This action depends on the results of 2.2.1.

CMS-SC

Mali, Chad, Niger, IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease mortality. Subject to same conditions as 1.2.1. above. First priorities are the Termit and Aïr regions in Niger, and the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve and northern part of the Ennedi in Chad.

Mali, Niger, Chad

CMS-SC

3. If reinforcement appropriate, acquire and perfect near-site captive management techniques and release techniques.  Study the faisability of pursuing Gadabedji regional center for captive breeding and reintroduction of Sahlelo-Sahlaran antilopes project in Niger.

Range States

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG, EAZA and AAZA

4. If reinforcement appropriate, locate compatible captive stock, with particular attention to the most distinct subspecies, G.d.mohrr.

IUCN CBSG

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

5. Monitor consolidation or reinforcement results closely ; proper training of personnel involved in the monitoring should be insured.

Range States

1. Restore range and numbers

3. Reintroduce populations

1. Select reintroduction sites, prepare management plan, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns. Areas concerned could include Atlantic Morocco (Dakhla, Lower Drâa) where programmes are in progress, as well as the Guembeul Faunal Reserve in Senegal, where a reintroduction programme was initiated. Also to be considered, if preliminary investigations under 1.1.3 are positive, and if protection is effective, are: south-eastern Mauritania, central Mali, Sahelian Burkina Faso, Senegal (Ferlo-Nord).

Range States

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Acquire and perfect near-site captive management techniques as well as effective release techniques.

Range States

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG

3. Locate appropriate captive stock.

IUCN CBSG

CMS-SC, EAZA and AZA

4. Monitor reintroduction results closely.

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

1. Conduct education programmes for local communities to increase consciousness and appreciation of heritage, and integrate those communities into conservation projects from the start

Range States

CMS- SC

2. Provide documentation destined for tour operators to limit irresponsible hunting, killing or harassment

All Parties to CMS

CMS Secretariat

3. Provide information to diplomatic services to help them counsel cooperants to curb poaching and other disturbances

All Parties to CMS

CMS Secretariat

4. Locate companies that employ cooperants susceptible of presenting a considerable threat and enlist their assistance in curbing detrimental activities ;

All Parties to CMS

CMS Secretariat

2. Reduce mortality

2. Census populations

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations, study their movements. In Chad, in and around the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim FR, in the Aïr-Ténéré NNR and in the Termit region in Niger, in the Gourma area and near the Mauritanian border in central Mali, north and north western Sudan (Northern Darfur, Northern Province).

Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

1. Locate favourable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of Sahlelo-Sahlaran ungulates.

Range States

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Conduct education programmes to combat, through collaboration with local communities, overgrazing by domestic stock.

Range States

3. Secure protection, through collaboration with local communities, for inadequately protected areas of importance for Gazella dama.

Range States

4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for Gazella dama.

Range States

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover Gazella dama movements.

Range States

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

6. Develop management plans for protected areas. Determine and monitor all potential threats to Gazella dama habitats.

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

1. Consolidate, through legal measures, the protection of areas of importance for Gazella dama.

Range States

2. Assess hunting legislations ; improve them where necessary.

Range States

3. Develop programmes to enlist local communitites support and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and Gazella dama conservation.

Range States

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

1. Designate national co-ordinators with responsibility for liaising with counterparts in other Range States and with co-operating organizations.

Range States

2. Provide central co-ordination of information exchange

CMS- SC

CMS Secretariat

3. Organize regular meetings of African desert antelopes Range States.

CMS Secretariat

CMS-SC

4. Provide technical training for field staff, possibly through a network of relevant institutions.

CMS Parties

CMS Secretariat,

CMS-SC

3. Enhance international cooperation

2. Raise funds for conservation programmes

Develop comprehensive project proposals, both on country basis and transborder programmes, for submission to appropriate agencies.

Range States

CMS Secretariat,

CMS-SC