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Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

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

1. Compare and complete historical data on habitat preference in each part of the current and historical range of both G.l.leptoceros and G.l.loderi

CMS –SC

Range States, IUCN ASG

2. Compile catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques for G. l. leptoceros

CMS- SC

Range States, IUCN ASG

3. On the basis of 1.1.1, supplemented by data on the present distribution of suitable habitats or on the feasability of their restoration, locate favourable areas in each Range State, in particular within the historical range of G.l. leptoceros and the eastern, fragmented, part of the range of G. l. loderi

Egypt, Sudan, Libya,

other Range States if appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in these favourable areas to permit recolonisation or reintroduction . The Siwa oasis could potentially be an important site for G.l.leptoceros, whose entire remnant populations are scattered outside any protected area.

Egypt, Sudan, Libya,

Other Range States if appropriate

5. Develop protected areas management plans for each of these protected areas

Egypt, Sudan, Libya,

other Range States if appropriate

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or reinforce populations

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

CMS-SC

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan, IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease mortality, essentially through antipoaching measures, and through fencing when and where possible

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan

CMS-SC

3. Where reinforcement appears necessary as a result of 1.2.1., acquire and perfect near-site captive management techniques and release techniques. Applies in particular to G.l.leptoceros, and perhaps to some of the eastern and southern populations of G.l.loderi (Libya, Niger, Chad, Sudan); latter not evident on present data.

Range States, where need demonstrated

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

4. If consolidation decided under 1.2.3. for G.l.leptoceros, study the feasibility of captive breeding. If reinforcement decided under 1.2.3. for G.l.loderi, locate compatible captive stock.

IUCN CBSG, Range States

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

5. Monitor consolidation or reinforcement 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 particular, evaluation of the main western populations in the Algero-Tunisian ergs ; detection, confirmation and evaluation of more scattered southern and eastern populations

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

1. Locate favorable areas of important habitats for the conservation of Gazella leptoceros, in particular vegetated ergs and, for G.l.leptoceros acacia groves .

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan

4. Establish protected areas in zones of importance for Gazella leptoceros, in particular in the western desert of northern Egypt, within the range of G.l.leptoceros. To be considered also are, within the range of G.l.loderi, the Grands Ergs, mostly the Algerian part of the Grand Erg oriental in continuity with Djebil NP in Tunisia;.

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan

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

Algeria- Tunisia, Egypt-Libya

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

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

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 leptoceros 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.

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