Presented during the 17h Annual Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group Meeting organized by the NGO Sahara Conservation Fund in Senegal, from 4 to 6 May 2017. The Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) gathers every year about a hundred people who are interested in the field of Sahelo-Saharan species conservation.

1. 17th Annual Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group Meeting
2 days of talks on biodiversity conservation in the Sahara and in the Sahel
Sustainable Management of Sahelo-Saharan Protected Areas
Emilien DAUTREY, Threatened Species Officer – Noé
May 4 – 6, 2017

2. RESULTS 2016
Projet d’appui à la gestion durable d’aires protégées sahélo-sahariennes, Niger et Tchad
Project of support for a sustainable management of the sahelo-saharan protected areas, Niger – Chad
Emilien Dautrey
Endangered Species Officer – NOÉ
Responsable du Pôle Espèces de Noé
17th SSIG, St Louis
4th of May, 2017
Project financed by the European Union

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Partners of Noé for this project in 2016
Niger and Chad governments
More than 80 CSOs in Niger and Chad
SCF
Financial partners in 2016

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Targeted areas
Réserve Naturelle Nationale de
Termit et Tin-Toumma, Niger
(9 700 000 ha)
Réserve de faune de Ouadi
Rimé Ouadi Achim , Chad
(7 795 000 ha)
Manga-Eguey area, Chad

5. Global objectives:
Conserve the last viable
populations of the sahelo-
sahara megafauna
Reinforce an effective
management of sahelo-saharan
protected areas and their
funding
Improve the pastoral system for
the use of the local populations
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6. Specific Objective:
To develop an institutionnal
model of sustainable
management of
multifonctionnals protected
areas : as tools for the
conservation of biodiversity,
local development and political
stability for the local populations
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7. 8 results to be achieved
R1 - Improve the knowledge and implement the priority activities of conservation and
raise awareness of the local populations
R2 - Reinforce the management capacities of the RNNTT, the RFOROA and support a
local management of the natural ressources
R3 - Improve the knowledge of the pastoral practices in Chad and creating a communal
management committee of the natural ressources for the RNNTT
R4 - Implement projects for the pastoral hydraulic and support the pastoral economy in
the RNNTT
R5 - Implement health missions and microprojects of education in the RNNTT
R6 - Create / support a consultation framework with the oil industry (CNPC, Savannah
Petroleum) for developping mecanismes of biodiversity compensation
R7 - Think of new way of collecting funds
R8 - Communicate on the priority of conserve the megafauna sahelo-saharan
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8. R1 - Improve the knowledge and implement the priority activities of
conservation
Improvement of knowledge
● Termit and Tin-Toumma Natural National Reserve
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3 field missions organized and implemented:
Ø Addax: aerial and terrestrial survey
Ø Bustard population: monitoring
Ø Termit massif fauna and wetlands: monitoring
Four missions not organized :
Ø 2 for the Oricou Vulture (identification of nest
and breeding success)
Ø 2 for the Addax (cold and heat seasons)

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Recommandations:
Ø Establish a regional action plan for the conservation of this species
Ø Stop the poaching from the military forces
Ø Implement the same survey in Manga-Eguey area in Chad
Ø Develop and implement a program of reinforcement and reintroduction of the addax in the wild
Aerial and terrestrial survey of the addax population
Conlusions:
Ø 3 addax directly observed
Ø Indirect observations (feces, tracks)
Ø Impossible to estimate the size of the population in the Termit and Tin-Toumma Reserve
Ø High decrease of the population if compared with the results of the aerial survey in 2007
Ø Evidence of poaching, around CNPC
Ø Possibility of a dissemination of the population on a large scale, from Niger to Chad with few
posibilities of connexion between these groups of animals

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Recommandations:
Ø Establish a formal collaboration with traditionnal hunters from the Sultan of Zinder
Ø Stop the poaching on motorbikes in the Kandil Bouzou Dilia
Ø Increase the monitoring field missions in the area of Kandil Bouzou, piority area for dorcas gazelles,
bustards and vultures
Monitoring of the Bustard population
Organization:
Ø Actors ; SCF, Reneco Wildlife and Noé
Ø Goal: to equip10 bustard of GPS collars
Ø 2 Traditionnal hunters to capture bustard
Results:
Ø 10 bustards captured, 9 equiped, collars still functionnal
Ø Identification of a new distribution area for the megafauna : Kandil Bouzou Dilia
Ø First collaboration with traditionnal hunters very positive regarding their knowledge of the area and of
poaching

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Dorcas gazelle, dama gazelle and Barbary sheep
Ø Stable kilometer abundance index fo the dorcas gazelles during the rain season, creepage distance
lower in the Termit massif than in the Kandil Bouzou
Ø Few observations of dama gazelles and barbary sheeps
Recommandations:
Ø Reinforce the anti-poaching activities
Ø Reinforce the monitoring of the species in the Termit massif
Ø Obtain commitments form the local communities for not degrading or stealing the equipment used
such as camera traps
Monitoring of Termit massif Fauna and pools of water
Pools of water:
Ø Monitoring of all the pool of water known and identified
Ø Only two with water, and with the presence of livestock and some waterbirds, but no big mammals

12. R1 - Improve the knowledge and implement the priority activities of
conservation
Improvement of knowledge
● Manga-Eguey (ME) area and Ouadi-Rimé Ouadi Achim Fauna Reserve (RFOROA) in Chad
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Two field mission organized and implemented:
Ø Ecological inventory in the ME area
Ø Identification of the main conservation and
management issues in RFOROA

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Recommandations:
Ø Determine and establih the way to collect informations from the field due to the lack of agents from
the DCFAP in this area
Ø Developp a regular monitoring in the area for the dama gazelle
Ø Plan a terrestrial census of the addax in the Eguey area and near the frontier
Ecological inventory in the Manga-Eguey area
Conclusions:
Ø Collect of testimony regarding the presence of 2 groups of addax – one in the Eguey area, and one at
the frontier with Niger for a potentiel total number of around 50 addax
Ø Direct observations of dorcas gazelle in the same area than durng the field mission in August 2010
Ø Tracks of dama gazelles
Ø Presence of arabian and nubian bustards
Ø High diversity of vultures with 5 different species observed : Oricou vulture, Ruppell vulture, African
vulture, white head vulture, hooded vulture
Ø Carnivores observed: fennec, jackal, ruppel fox, pale fox, striped hyena, Cat from Lybia

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Ecological inventory in the Manga-Eguey area – potentiel sites of presence of the Addax

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Recommandations:
Ø Determine and establih the way to collect informations from the field due to the lack of agents from
the DCFAP in this area
Ø Developp a regular monitoring in the area for the dama gazelle
Ø Plan a terrestrial census of the addax in the Eguey area and near the frontier
Ecological inventory in the Manga-Eguey area
Conclusions:
Ø Collect of testimony regarding the presence of 2 groups of addax – one in the Eguey area, and one at
the frontier with Niger for a potentiel total number of around 50 addax
Ø Direct observations of dorcas gazelle in the same area than durng the field mission in August 2010
Ø Tracks of dama gazelles
Ø Presence of arabian and nubian bustards
Ø High diversity of vultures with 5 different species observed : Oricou vulture, Ruppell vulture, African
vulture, white head vulture, hooded vulture
Ø Carnivores observed: fennec, jackal, ruppel fox, pale fox, striped hyena, Cat from Lybia

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Recommandations:
Ø Establish the management plan of the Reserve
Ø Developping a network of community agents
Ø Strenghening the monitoring of the dama gazelle population
Ø Strenghen the capacity of the Reserve to fight bushfires
Identification of the main conservation and management issues for the Ouadi-Rimé Ouadi-Achim Fauna
Reserve
Conclusions:
Ø Increase of the population of the dama gazelle certainly thanks to the presence of the Oryx camp with
a population estimated between 30 to 50 individuals
Ø Anthropics pressures : logging, permanent agriculture causing the desertification, and overgrazing,
bushfires

17. R1 - Improve the knowledge and implement the priority activities of
conservation
Conservation actions
● Community guard patrols
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6 community agents, 7 missions of community guard patrols: 75
camps visited, more than 5300 km of patrols, raise awareness of
3656 inhabitants, arrest of 4 poachers
● Anti-poaching activities
Ø Purchase of 2 HF radios, 4 VHF radios, fuel, maintenance of
vehicles of the Unity of Management of the Protected Area
Ø New patrol sheet
Ø Information boards
Ø Arrest of 8 poachers, seizure of 60 traps
● Advocacy
Ø Advocacy on the need to change the law authorizing the
forestry officers to sell the fauna poached confiscated as the
trafic is now more oriented on the poaching of living animals

18. R1 - Improve the knowledge and implement the priority activities of
conservation
Conservation actions
● Recommandations to the Ministry of Environment in Niger
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Ø Support the Unity of Management of the Protected Area through
the use and the training on tool such as SMART
Ø Strenghen the presence of forestry agents in the Termit massif
Ø Increase the number of field missions and logisitical and human
ressources (35 agents for 97 000 km2, 3 vehicles etc.)
Ø Allow the reintroduction in the wild of the living fauna
confiscated to poachers
Ø Give the community agents a official acknowledgment
Ø Raise awareness on the need to protect and conserve
biodiversity of the forestry agents and military forces during their
training
Recommandations pour répondre à l’état
d’urgence écologique au sein de la RNNTT
Contact :
Abdoulaye HAROUNA, Chef de projet Noé Niger
Port. : +227 94 66 22 33 aharouna@noe.org
Mai 2016
Photo©ThomasRabeil–SCF-2016

19. R2 - Reinforce the management capacities of the RNNTT, the RFOROA
and support a local management of the natural ressources
Capacity building of managers of the 2 protected areas
● Training of forestry agents in Niger
Permanent training of the forestry agents during each field mission on the ecological monitoring, and the
knowledge of the key species
Support of the decentralization of natural ressources management
● Communal development plan of Tesker
Support of the revision of the Communal Development Plan of Tesker for the integration of the
Management issues of the Reserve within the development plan of the locality.
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20. R3 - A communitary management of the natural ressources in the RNNTT
Territory contracts (« contrats terroirs ») for the natural ressources
management
● Effectiveness of these contracts
Ø Denunciation of 6 illegal wells
Ø Rational use of the water pools in the Termit Massif
Ø Information on poaching
Ø Stop of use of poison against jackals
Ø Stop disturbance on Oricou vultures nests
● Dongoumi declaration
Ø 120 people gathered: 65 chiefs of nomadic camps,
regional and local authorities, CSOs
Ø Remind of the commitments of the local
communities through the territory contracts and
statement that the government needs to do more.
Ø Declaration transmitted to the minister of interior
and minsiter of environment
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21. R4 – Develop the pastoral hydraulic and support the pastoral economy in
the RNNTT
Reinforcement of traditional wells
Ø Partnerhsip with Savannah petroleum funding the building of
a new reinforced traditionnal well in the locality of N’Gourti
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Support to pastoralism activities
● Improvement to the access of veterinary services
Ø Diagnostic of the main pathologies in the RNNTT
Ø Schedule of campaigns of vaccination

22. R5 - Health missions and microprojects of education in the RNNTT
Health microprojects
● Vaccination campaigns
Education microprojects
● Building of 2 classrooms, and equipment of 4
classrooms
● 12 students from the RNNTT in the internship of
Zinder
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year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Nb mission 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 2
Care 238 423 456 1204 498 647 342 437
vaccination 1241 500 526 948 125 314 518 380
With
booster
574 128 265 146 91 155 323 0

23. R6 - A consultation framework with the oil industry (CNPC, Savannah
Petroleum) for developping mecanismes of biodiversity compensation
Building capacities and empowerment of SCOs in Niger
● Diagnostic of the oil context in Chad
Ø Identification of the main stakeholders in Chad in the assessment of the environmental impact of the
oil activities
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● Support to the SCOs
Ø Exchange visit in Niamey between SCOs from Niger, Chad, governmental agency for environmental
assessment from Niger and Chad, Project Niger Fauna Corridor, Noé, Ministry of environment in Niger
Ø Recommandations on the oil exploitation context in Niger for bringing more transparency, on the
need of support the conservation of the sahelo-saharan biodiversity, on the need to create an
regional netwrok between SCOs for initiating a regional collaboration

24. R6 – A consultation framework with the oil industry (CNPC, Savannah
Petroleum) for developping mecanismes of biodiversity compensation
Building capacities and empowerment of SCOs in Niger
● Advocacy campaigns
● A slogan : « Sauvegardons notre environnement pour nous même et les générations futures tout en
exploitant durablement nos ressources. »
Ø 1600 people met
Ø One action plan shared with the ministry of environment
Ø Meeting with members of parliament to present recommandations on the oil context in Niger and the
need to improve it
Ø Lecture with national authorities, french ambassador, Minister of environment
Ø Radio, TV following-up
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25. R6 - A consultation framework with the oil industry (CNPC, Savannah
Petroleum) for developping mecanismes of biodiversity compensation
Promote good practices
● Determine good practices
Ø Good practices regarding the avifauna not applied
● MoU with Savannah Petroleum
Ø Second MoU signed between Noé and Savannah Petroleum for
supporting financialy activities for the local communities
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REPUBLIQUE DU NIGER
Fraternité - Travail – Progrès
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MINISTERE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
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DIRECTION GENERALE DES EAUX ET FORETS
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DIRECTION DE LA FAUNE, DE LA CHASSE ET DES AIRES PROTEGEES
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RESERVE NATURELLE NATIONALE DE TERMIT ET TIN-TOUMMA
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RAPPORT DE MISSION
Constat de Mortalités des Tourterelles (Streptopeiia Spp.) au
niveau de la station intermédiaire de chauffage N°3 sur le trajet
pipeline Gouméri -Raffinerie de Zinder
Présenté par :
M. Halidou ADAMOU,
Chef de Section Protection et Surveillance de la RNNTT
Juillet 2016
–
Actions menées en 2016/2017
Projet d’appui à la gestion durable d’aires protégées sahélo-sahariennes, Niger et Tchad
BILAN
Vos contacts chez Noé :
Sébastien PINCHON, Responsable du Pôle International
Port. : +33 6 87 49 24 76 courriel : spinchon@noe.org
Valérie COLLIN, Secrétaire générale
Port. : +33 6 11 34 02 82 courriel : vcollin@noe.org
Abdoulaye HAROUNA, Coordonateur du PCBR
Port : +227 9466 2233 courriel : aharouna@noe.org
Avril 2017

26. R8 - Communicate on the need of conserve the megafauna sahelo-
saharan
Ø Radio, TV, articles, web, press release from IUCN, lectures, courses in University in Niger`
Ø One musical album named « Addax » from the group Dangana: 2000 CDs and 2000
DVDs disseminated within the military camps
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27. THANK YOU