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Nigeria 
Oryx dammah, Gazella dama, Gazella dorcas

Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

1. Conserve or restore potential habitats

Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

1. Compile historical data on habitat preference

CMS –SC

Nigeria, IUCN ASG

2. Compile catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques

CMS- SC

Nigeria, IUCN ASG

3. Locate favorable areas in the sahelian zone, such as Chinguruma-Duguma proposed PA

Nigeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in the sahelian zone

Nigeria

5. Develop protected areas management plans

Nigeria

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations

Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

1. Analyse population dynamics and limiting factors of remnant populations

CMS-SC

Nigeria IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease natural mortality

Nigeria

CMS-SC

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

Nigeria

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.

Nigeria

 

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
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

Nigeria

CMS- SC

3. Provide information to diplomatic services to help them counsel cooperants and other visitors 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 dorcas

 

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations, study their movements

Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

Nigeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

 

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

 

1. Locate favorable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of the gazelles.

Nigeria

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

 

Nigeria

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

Nigeria

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

Nigeria

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

Nigeria, Chad, Niger

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Nigeria

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

 

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

Nigeria

2. Assess hunting legislations ; improve them where necessary.

Nigeria

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

 

Nigeria

 

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

 

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

Nigeria

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

Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

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

Nigeria

CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC