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Programme

Activity

Responsible

Collaborators

1. Restore range and numbers

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

1. Compile historical data on habitat preference in each part of the present and historical range

CMS –SC

Range States, IUCN ASG

2. Compile, on the basis of 1.1.1, a catalogue of habitat-favouring management techniques specific to each broad geographical area

CMS- SC

Range States, IUCN ASG

3. On the basis of 1.1.1, supplemented by data on the present distribution of suitable habitats or on the feasability of their restoration, locate favourable areas in each Range State. To be considered in particular: southern Tunisia (Djebil NP), Morocco (Dakhla-Adrar Souttouf), Hoggar NP, Tassili des Ajjers NP, Grand Erg Oriental, Grand Erg Occidental in Algeria, northwestern Sudan (northern Darfur and northern province)

Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

4. Establish or reinforce protected areas in these favourable areas to permit recolonisation or reintroduction

Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan

5. Develop management plans for each of these protected areas

Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan

CMS- SC

1. Restore range and numbers

2. Consolidate or Reinforce populations

1. Analyse population dynamics and limiting factors of remnant populations. This action depends on the results of 2.2.1

CMS-SC

Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, IUCN ASG

2. Manage habitat in areas of relict presence to increase recruitment rates and decrease mortality. To be considered in particular: eastern Mauritania (Mreyye area in the eastern part of Majabat al Koubra), northern Mali (western border with Mauritania and northeastern border with Algeria in the Adrar des Iforas), southwestern Libya, the western Ténéré desert in the Aïr-Ténéré NNR in Niger, the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim FR,the Tibesti piedmont and the Mourdi depression in Chad.

Mauritania, Mali, Libya, Niger, Chad

CMS-SC

3. If reinforcement appropriate, acquire and perfect near-site captive management techniques and release techniques. Study the feasability of pursuing the regional center for captive breeding and reintroduction of Sahelo-Saharan antilopes project in Niger.

Mauritania, Mali, Libya, Niger, Chad

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG, EAZA and AAZA

4. If reinforcement appropriate, locate compatible captive stock.

IUCN CBSG

CMS-SC, EAZA and AAZA

5. Monitor consolidation or reinforcement results closely.

Range States

1. Restore range and numbers

3. Reintroduce populations

1. Select reintroduction sites, prepare management plan, initiate management measures, conduct awareness campaigns. Areas concerned include eastern Tunisia (Djebil NP) and Morocco (Dakhla-Adrar Souttouf) where programmes are in progress. Also to be considered, if preliminary investigations under 1.1.3 are positive, and if protection is effective, are: Hoggar and Tassili des Ajjers in Algeria, Wadi Howar in Sudan.

Tunisia and Morocco (ongoing programmes), Algeria, Libya, Sudan; if conditions met; other Range States if appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Acquire and perfect near-site captive management techniques as well as effective release techniques. Study the feasability of pursuing the regional center for captive breeding and reintroduction of Sahelo-Saharan antilopes project in Niger.

Tunisia and Morocco (ongoing programmes), Algeria, Sudan, Niger, other Range States if appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG, IUCN CBSG

3. Locate appropriate captive stock.

IUCN CBSG, Range States

CMS-SC

4. Monitor reintroduction results closely.

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

1. Increase public awareness

1. Conduct education programmes for local communities to increase consciousness and appreciation of heritage, and integrate those communities into conservation projects from the start

Range States

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 councel 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

1. Locate and evaluate remnant populations, study their movements.

With present information, probably mostly limited to systematic surveys to confirm presence in the east and northeast of the Termit region, the Ténéré desert in the Aïr-Ténéré NNR, and in the northwest near the Algerian border in Niger; in the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Reserve and the Tibesti in Chad; in the Mreyye area in the eastern part of the Majabat al Koubra along the Mali border in eastern Mauritania; in Mali, near the western border with Mauritania, and near the north eastern border with Algeria in the Adrar de Iforas.

Mauritania, Mali, Libya, Niger, Chad

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

2. Reduce mortality

3. Conserve relict habitats

1. Locate favourable areas of relict important habitats for the conservation of Addax nasomaculatus, within or near areas of presence located under 2.2.1. or within or near areas of succesfull reintroduction.

Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, , other Range States as appropriate

CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Range States

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

Range States

4. Establish protected areas in newly identified zones of importance for Addax nasomaculatus.

Range States

5. Establish transboundary protected areas where approriate to cover Addax nasomaculatus movements.

Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia

CMS Secretariat, CMS-SC, IUCN ASG

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

Range States

2. Reduce mortality

4. Enact and enforce legislative measures

1. Consolidate, through legal measures, the protection of areas of importance for Addax nasomaculatus. Top priorities are the rehabilitation of the Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Reserve in Chad, garanteed protection in Aïr-Ténéré NNR, the establishment of a protected area in the Termit massif of Niger.

Range States

2. Assess hunting legislations ; improve them where necessary.

Range States

3. Develop programmes to enlist local community support and collaboration for the enforcement of desert habitat and Addax nasomaculatus conservation.

Range States

3. Enhance international cooperation

1. Improve exchange of information and technical expertise

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

Range States

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

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

Range States

CMS Secretariat,

CMS-SC