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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 |
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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 |
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2. Reduce mortality |
1. Increase public awareness
Oryx
dammah
Gazella
dama
Gazella
dorcas
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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.
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Nigeria |
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3. Secure protection, through collaboration with local
communities, for inadequately protected areas of importance for desert
antelopes. |
Nigeria |
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4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones
of importance for desert antelopes. |
Nigeria |
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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 |
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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 |
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2. Assess hunting legislations ; improve them where
necessary. |
Nigeria |
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3. Develop programs to enlist local communitites support
and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and desert
antelope conservation.
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Nigeria |
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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 |
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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
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3. Enhance international cooperation |
2. Raise funds for conservation programmes
Gazella
dama
Gazella
dorcas
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Develop comprehensive project proposals, both on country
basis and transborder programs, for submission to appropriate agencies. |
Nigeria |
CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC
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