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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

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

 

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

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

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

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

Senegal

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

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

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

2. Assess hunting legislations; improve them where necessary.

Senegal

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

 

Senegal

 

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

Oryx dammah
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

 

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

Senegal

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
Gazella dama
Gazella dorcas

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

Senegal

CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC