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Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

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

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros

1. Complete data on detailed characteristics and evolution of present or former gazelle and antelope habitat

CMS –SC

Algeria, IUCN ASG

2. Complete catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques

CMS- SC

Algeria, IUCN ASG

3. Complete inventory of favourable areas for recolonisation of Gazella cuvieri and for possible reintroduction of Addax nasomaculatus and Oryx dammah

Algeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in areas identified in 1.1.3

Algeria

5. Develop management plans for protected areas identified under 1.1.3 and for which such plans do not exist

Algeria

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations

Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros

1. Analyse population dynamics and limiting factors of remnant populations of Gazella cuvieri and Gazella leptoceros

CMS-SC

Algeria IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease mortality, particularly in protected areas such as Saharan Atlas NP, Belezma NP, Mergueb NR for Gazella cuvieri ; the Hoggar NP for Gazella dama

Algeria

CMS-SC

3. If reinforcement appropriate, acquire and perfect near site captive management techniques and release techniques.

Algeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG

4. If reinforcement appropriate, locate compatible captive stock.

IUCN CBSG

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

5. Monitor consolidation or reinforcement results closely.

Algeria

1. Restore range and numbers

3. Reintroduce populations

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus

1. Select reintroduction sites, prepare management plan, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns, for reimplantation of Oryx dammah and Addax nasomaculatus. Sites of possible intervention, in view of their uniquely large size are the Tassili NP and Hoggar NP, possibly with habitat rehabilitation measures

Algeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Algeria

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

3. Locate appropriate captive stock.

IUCN CBSG

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

4. Monitor reintroduction results closely.

Algeria

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Algeria

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

Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations, study their movements of Gazella dama in the Hoggar NP

Algeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2.Census populations of Gazella cuvieri and Gazella leptoceros

Algeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

3. Estimate populations of Gazella dorcas

Algeria

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Locate favourable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of Sahelo-Saharan ungulates.

Algeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Algeria

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

Algeria

4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for desert antelopes ; of particular impoertance for Gazella leptoceros would be the establishment of a PA in the Grand Erg Oriental close to the Djebil NP in Tunisia.

Algeria

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover desert antelopes movements.

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Niger, Mali, Mauritania.

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Algeria

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Algeria

2. Assess hunting legislation ; improve them where necessary.

Algeria

3. Develop programs to enlist local community support and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and desert antelope conservation.

Algeria

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Algeria

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

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Algeria

CMS Secretariat,
CMS-SC