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Senegal
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 |
1. Complete historical data on detailed characteristics
and evolution of present or former Oryx dammah and Gazella dama
habitat |
CMS –SC |
Senegal, IUCN ASG |
2. Complete catalogue of habitat favouring management
techniques |
CMS- SC |
Senegal, IUCN ASG |
3. Complete location of favourable areas in particular
in the Fete-Ole region and adjacent areas in northern Senegal |
Senegal |
CMS-SC, IUCN ASG |
4. Establish protected areas in these favourable areas |
Senegal |
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5. Develop protected areas management plans for these
areas |
Senegal |
CMS- SC |
1. Restore range and numbers |
2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations
Gazella dama |
1. Complete analysis of population dynamics and limiting
factors of reintroduced population within Gueumbeul Faunal Reserve |
CMS-SC |
Senegal, IUCN ASG |
2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates
and decrease natural mortality within Gueumbeul Faunal
Reserve |
Senegal |
CMS-SC |
5. Monitor consolidation results. |
Senegal |
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1. Restore range and numbers |
3. Reintroduce populations
Oryx dammah
Gazella dama |
1. Prepare management plans for selected reintroduction
sites, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns, in
particular for the Ferlo Nature Reserve for Oryx dammah, and
the sandy plains adjacent to the Ferlo River in central Ferlo for Gazella
dama. |
Senegal |
CMS-SC, IUCN ASG |
2. Perfect near site captive management techniques as
well as effective release techniques; evaluate the feasability to use the
Guembeul Reserve as a captive breeding center. |
Senegal |
CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG |
3. Locate appropriate captive stock. |
Senegal, IUCN CBSG |
CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA |
4. Monitor reintroduction results closely. |
Senegal |
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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 |
Senegal |
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 dorcas
|
1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations of Gazella
dorcas, reintroduced in Djoudj National Park
|
Senegal
|
CMS-SC, IUCN ASG |
2. Reduce mortality |
3. Conserve relict habitats
Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas
|
1. Locate favorable areas of relict important habitats
for the conservation of the Oryx and the gazelles in northern Senegal. |
Senegal |
CMS-SC, IUCN ASG |
2. Conduct education programs to combat, through
collaboration with local communities, overgrazing by domestic stock.
|
Senegal |
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3. Secure protection, through collaboration with local
communities, for inadequately protected areas of importance for desert
antelopes. |
Senegal |
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4. Establish protected areas and reinforce protection of
existing PA in zones of importance for the Oryx and for the gazelles, in
particular the Fete Ole region and the central Ferlo. |
Senegal |
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5. Establish transboundary protected areas where
approriate to cover desert antelopes movements. |
Senegal- Mauritania. |
CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG |
6. Develop management plans for these protected areas.
Determine and monitor all potential threats to desert antelopes habitats. |
Senegal |
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2. Reduce mortality |
4. Enact and enforce legislative measures
Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas
|
1. Consolidate, through legal measures, the protection
of areas of importance for desert antelopes. |
Senegal |
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2. Assess hunting legislations; improve them where
necessary. |
Senegal |
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3. Develop programs to enlist local communitites support
and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and desert
antelope conservation.
|
Senegal |
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3. Enhance international cooperation |
1. Improve exchange of information and technical
expertise
Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas
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1. Designate national co-ordinators with responsibility
for liaising with counterparts in other Range States and with co-operating
organizations. |
Senegal |
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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
Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas
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Develop comprehensive project proposals, both on country
basis and transborder programs, for submission to appropriate agencies. |
Senegal |
CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC
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