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

Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

1. Conserve or restore potential habitats

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros

1. Compile historical data on detailed characteristics and evolution of present or former gazelle and antelope habitat

CMS –SC

Sudan, IUCN ASG

2. Compile catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques

CMS- SC

Sudan, IUCN ASG

3. Locate favourable areas, essentially in the Northern Darfur Province, in particular around Wadi Howar

Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. If appropriate and feasible, establish protected areas, in particular in the proposed Wadi Howar area.

Sudan

5. Develop management plans for these areas

Sudan

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros

1. Analyse population dynamics and limiting factors of remnant populations

CMS-SC

Sudan IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease mortality

Sudan

CMS-SC

5. Monitor consolidation results.

Sudan

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

Oryx dammah
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

Sudan

CMS- SC

 

2. Reduce mortality

2. Census populations

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

 

1. Locate and evaluate remnant antelope populations, in Northern Darfur Province and the western part of the Northern Province, and if possible study their movements.

 

Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

 

1. Locate favourable areas of important habitats for the conservation of Sahelo-Saharan ungulates.

Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Sudan

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

Sudan

4. If appropriate and feasible, establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for desert antelopes

Sudan

5. If appropriate and feasible, establish transboundary protected areas where appropriate to cover desert antelopes movements.

Sudan, Egypt, Lybia, Chad.

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Sudan

 

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

 

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

Sudan

2. Assess hunting legislation ; improve them where necessary.

Sudan

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

 

Sudan

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

Oryx dammah
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.

Sudan

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
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella dama
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Sudan

CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC