Home Page

Action Plans countries
Action Plans species
Agadir seminar 2003
Album
Aridlands antelopes
Contact
Databases
Distribution maps
FFEM project
Flora
Missions - Surveys & Reports
National Reports
Nationals Strategies
News, Articles
Other species
Other websites
Publications
Species Status
SSIG Group
SCF: Sahara Conservation Fund
Translocations

                                                           

Libya 

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

Ojective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

1. Conserve or restore potential habitats

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros

1. Compile historical data on habitat preference

CMS –SC

Libya, IUCN ASG

2. Compile catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques

CMS- SC

Libya, IUCN ASG

3. Complete inventory of favourable areas

Libya

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Persue establishment of protected areas, in particular in the Hamada el Homra

Libya

5. Develop management plans for these protected areas

Libya

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or reinforce populations

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros

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

CMS-SC

Libya IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease mortality

Libya

CMS-SC

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

Libya

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.

Libya

 

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
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

Libya

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 councel 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

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations of Addax nasomaculatus, Gazella leptoceros, Gazella dama

Libya

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

3. Estimate populations

Gazella dorcas

Libya

 

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Locate favourable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of antelopes and gazelles.

Libya

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

 

Libya

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

Libya

4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for desert antelopes.

Libya

5. Investigate the possibility of establishing transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover desert antelope movements, possibly in the vicinity of the Egyptian Siwa oasis, of the Tibesti mountains, the Jebel Uweinat .

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

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Libya

 

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Libya

2. Assess hunting legislation ; improve them where necessary.

Libya

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

 

Libya

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Libya

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

Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Libya

CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC