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Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate populations

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitement rates and decrease mortality essentially through antipoaching measures

Range States

CMS- SC

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

3. Estimate populations

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve habitats

1. Locate favorable areas of important habitats for the conservation of Gazella dorcas.

Range States

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Conduct education programs 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 dorcas.

Range States

4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for desert antelopes, including Gazella dorcas.

Range States

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover desert antelopes, including Gazella dorcas, movements.

Range States

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

1. Consolidate, through legal measures, the protection of areas of importance for desert antelopes, including Gazella dorcas.

Range States

2. Assess hunting legislations ; improve them where necessary.

Range States

3. Develop programs to enlist local communities support and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and Gazella dorcas conservation.

Range States

²3. 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.

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 programs, for submission to appropriate agencies.

Range States

CMS Secretariat,

CMS-SC