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Burkina Faso 

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 detailed characteristics and evolution of present or former gazelle and antelope habitat in the Sahelian zone

CMS –SC

Burkina Faso, IUCN ASG

2. Compile catalogue of habitat favouring management techniques

CMS- SC

Burkina Faso, IUCN ASG

3. Persue surveys in the Sahelian region to locate favorable areas

Burkina Faso

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish protected areas in the Sahelian zone, in particular in the Seno Mango area

Burkina Faso

5. Develop protected area management plans for these newly established PA.

Burkina Faso

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 of gazelles

CMS-SC

Burkina Faso IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat to increase recruitment rates

and decrease natural mortality of gazelles, fencing habitats when and where necessary

CMS-SC

3. If reinforcement appropriate, acquire and perfect near site captive management techniques and release techniques.

Burkina Faso

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.

Burkina Faso

1. Restore range and numbers

3. Reintroduce populations

Oryx dammah

1. Select reintroduction sites, prepare management plan, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns, in particular in the Seno Mango area.

Burkina Faso

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Acquire and perfect near site captive management techniques as well as effective release techniques.

Burkina Faso

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG

3. Locate appropriate captive stock.

IUCN CBSG

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

4. Monitor reintroduction results closely.

Burkina Faso

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

Burkina Faso

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 dama
Gazella dorcas

 

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations essentially in the Seno Mango area, study their movements

Gazella dama

Gazella dorcas

 

Burkina Faso 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 gazelles and antelopes in the Sahelian zone.

Burkina Faso

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

 

Burkina Faso

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

Burkina Faso

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

Burkina Faso

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover desert antelope movements ( Seno-Mango and Laga Koundiri area).

Burkina- Faso, Mali, Niger.

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Burkina Faso

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.

Burkina Faso

2. Assess hunting legislation ; improve them where necessary.

Burkina Faso

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

 

Burkina Faso

 

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.

Burkina Faso

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.

Burkina Faso

CMS Secretariat,CMS-SC