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Objective

Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

1. Conserve or restore potential habitats in areas of former occurrence

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella cuvieri

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

CMS –SC

Tunisia, IUCN ASG

2. Complete catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques

CMS- SC

Tunisia, IUCN ASG

3. Complete inventory of favourable areas for recolonisation of the Dorsale or sub-saharan ranges by Gazella cuvieri; of possible areas for Addax reintroduction ; of sites of potential habitat rehabilitation, along the lines of successful Bou Hedma project, for reimplantation of Oryx dammah in additional sites

Tunisia

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in areas identified under 1.1.3.

Tunisia

5. Develop protected areas management plans for areas identified under 1.1.3. and for which such plans are not already in existence

Tunisia

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations

Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros

1. Analyse population dynamics and limiting factors of remnant populations of Gazella cuvieri and Gazella leptoceros

CMS-SC

Tunisia, IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates,

decrease natural mortality of Gazella cuvieri and Gazella leptoceros, fencing habitas where and when appropriate

Tunisia

CMS-SC

5. Monitor consolidation results.

Tunisia

1. Restore range and numbers

3. Reintroduce populations

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus

1. Select reintroduction sites, prepare management plan, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns, along the lines of successful Bou Hedma project, for reimplantation of Oryx dammah and Addax nasomaculatus. The region of Sidi Toui NP and the regions adjacent to the Grand Erg Oriental between Djebil-Zemlet el Borma and the Erg Djeneien may be appropriate choices for the Oryx, if Acacia raddiana and its cortege is restored ; the area of Djebil NP seems an appropriate choice for the reintroduction of the Addax.

Tunisia

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

3. Continue the highly successful Bou Hedma Oryx reintroduction project, in particular continue efforts to extent the vegetation regeneration area within the Park.

Tunisia

CMS-SC

4. Continue monitoring of reintroduction results.

Tunisia

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Persue education programmes for local communities to increase consciousness and appreciation of heritage

Tunisia

CMS- SC

2. Provide documentation destined for tour operators to limit irresponsible harassment

All Parties to CMS

CMS Secretariat

3. Provide information to diplomatic services to help them counsel cooperants or other visitors, as an assistance to the Tunisian Authorities in their efforts to curb poaching and other disturbances

All Parties to CMS

CMS Secretariat

2. Reduce mortality

2. Census populations

Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations of Gazella leptoceros, study their movements

Tunisia

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2.Continue censusing populations of Gazella cuvieri

Tunisia

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

3. Estimate populations

Gazella dorcas

Tunisia

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Continue inventory of favourable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of surviving gazelles and of reintroduced antelopes.

Tunisia

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Tunisia

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

Tunisia

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

Tunisia

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover desert antelopes movements, in particular in the region of Djebel Chambi on the border with Algeria for Gazella cuvieri, and around Djebil NP in the Grand Erg Oriental for Gazella leptoceros and Addax nasomaculatus..

Tunisia, Algeria, Lybia.

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

6. Develop management plans for protected areas created under 2.3.4 or 2.3.5.

Tunisia

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

1. Consolidate, where necessary and effective, through legal measures, the protection of areas of importance for desert antelopes.

Tunisia

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

Tunisia

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

Oryx dammah
Addax nasomaculatus
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Tunisia

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 cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas

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

Tunisia

CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC