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Activity

Responsible

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1. Restore range and numbers

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

1. Compile historical data on habitat preference in each part of the current 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 the current distribution of suitable habitats or on the feasability of their restoration, locate favourable areas in each Range State. To be considered in particular : central-southern Tunisia (Bou Hedma, Sidi Toui region), Atlantic Morocco (Dakhla, Lower Drâa), Tassili and Hoggar in Algeria, south-eastern Mauritania, the Gourma and the Ansongo-Menaka NP in central Mali, the Seno-Mango in Burkina Faso, the Aïr-Ténéré NNR in Niger, northern Darfur in Sudan.

Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan ; other Range States (within former distribution) if appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in these favourable areas to permit recolonisation or reintroduction, and establish corridors between protected areas wherever possible

Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan ; other Range States (within former distribution) if appropriate

5. Develop management plans for each of these protected areas

Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan ; other Range States (within former distribution) if appropriate

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or reinforce populations

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

CMS-SC

Niger, Chad, Sudan?, 

IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat in areas of relict presence to increase recruitment rates and decrease mortality. Subject to same conditions as 1.2.1. above. With present information, first priorities are the Termit massif in Niger, and the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Reserve in Chad. Management capability is dependent on creation or rehabilitation of protected areas of adequate size 

Niger, Chad

CMS-SC

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

Niger, Chad

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG

4. If reinforcement appropriate, locate compatible captive stock.

IUCN CBSG, Niger, Chad

CMS-SC

5. Monitor consolidation or reinforcement results closely.

Niger, Chad

1. Restore range and numbers

3. Reintroduce populations

1. Select reintroduction sites, prepare management plan, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns. Areas concerned include central-southern Tunisia (Bou Hedma, Sidi Toui region) and Atlantic Morocco (Dakhla, Lower Drâa) where programs are in progress. Also to be considered, if preliminary investigations under 1.1.3 are positive, and if protection is effective, are: Tassili and Hoggar in Algeria, south-eastern Mauritania, the Gourma and Ansongo-Menaka NP in central Mali, Sahelian Burkina Faso (Seno-Mango), Senegal (Ferlo), the Aïr-Ténéré NR in Niger, northern Darfur in Sudan.

Tunisia and Morocco (ongoing programmes), Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger, Sudan, if conditions met; other Range States if appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Acquire and perfect near-site captive management techniques as well as effective release techniques. Study the feasability of pursuing Gadabedji regional center for captive breeding and reintroduction of Sahelo-Saharan antilopes project in Niger.

Tunisia and Morocco (ongoing programmes), Niger, other Range States if appropriate

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

3. Locate appropriate captive stock.

IUCN CBSG, Range States

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

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.

With present information, probably mostly limited to confirmation of presence in the Termit massif in Niger, and in the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Reserve in Chad. Efforts at locating other nuclei should be continued, notably in other former sites in Niger and Chad, in particular in the Ennedi, Tibesti, Borkou, Kanem and Batha prefectures in Chad, as well as elsewhere in the Sahelian zone and in the periphery of the central-Saharan mountain ranges

Niger, Chad ,

Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Libya, Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

1. Locate favorable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of Oryx dammah, within or near areas of presence located under 2.2.1. or within or near areas of succesfull reintroduction

Niger, Chad, other Range States as appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Niger, Chad,

Other Range States

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

Range States

4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for Oryx dammah, in particular around the Termit massif in Niger .

Range States

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover Oryx dammah movements.

Burkina Faso, Mali,

Niger, Chad,

Algeria, Sudan,

Other Range States if appropriate

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

1. Consolidate, through legal measures, the protection of areas of importance for Oryx dammah. Top priorities are the rehabilitation of the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Reserve in Chad, the establishment of a protected area in the Termit massif of Niger.

Niger, Chad, other Range States as appropriate

2. Assess hunting legislations ; improve them where necessary.

Range States

3. Develop programmes to enlist local community support and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and Oryx dammah 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