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    Our people Sahara Conservation is a team of 100 employees, spread across Chad, France, and Niger, all playing a critical role in conserving the Sahel and Sahara. Our Governing Board Our Team in Chad Our Team in Niger Our Team in Europe They work with us Our mission would not be possible without the dedication…

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  • SSIG – Call for abstracts extended deadline to March 31

    This year’s meeting will be hosted by the Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (Spanish National Research Council) in Almeria, Spain, and facilitated by Sahara Conservation the 4 and 5 May. Call for abstracts We have extended the deadline for abstracts for contributed presentations for oral and poster presentations to 31 March 2023.If you would like to present during the…

  • 2023 Sahel & Sahara Interest Group meeting – Registration is open!

    Background The Sahel & Sahara Interest Group was born in 1998 on the back of a meeting organized by the Convention on Migratory Species in Djerba, Tunisia, to adopt an action plan for endangered Sahelo-Saharan antelopes. Since then, the meeting has become an annual forum for all those working on environment, conservation and sustainable development…

  • Sahel & Sahara Interest Group 2023 meeting: 4 & 5 May – Almeria, Spain

    The Sahel & Sahara Interest Group was born in 1998 on the back of a meeting organized by the Convention on Migratory Species in Djerba, Tunisia, to adopt an action plan for endangered Sahelo-Saharan antelopes. Since then, the meeting has become an annual forum for all those working on environment, conservation and sustainable development in…

  • Congratulations to Ibrahim Mamadou Maїmounatou for her PhD!

    Congratulations to Ibrahim Mamadou Maїmounatou, Manager of the captive ostrich breeding sites of Sahara Conservation in Niger, who becomes the first woman to get a PhD at the University of Diffa! Maïmounatou defended last month her PhD thesis in Ecology and Environment with a very honorable mention in front of the jury, on the subject…

  • The Success of the Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project in Niger

    Every 14 countries involved in the Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project will have had a different experience. Although working towards the same goal of strengthening the Eastern European population of Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) by implementing urgent conservation measures to eliminate the main threats, each partner had to adapt to the local context, especially to…

  • Sahel & Sahara Interest Group 2023 meeting – Save the date!

    Since 2001, the Sahel and Sahara Interest Group (SSIG) meeting has been an annual forum for everyone working in wildlife conservation within the arid areas of North Africa and the Middle East. Facilitated by Sahara Conservation, the meeting provides an opportunity to bring people together to share ideas and projects, and to continue a strong tradition of…

  • Tribute to Dr Mark Stanley Price

    Sahara Conservation is sad to share the news of Dr Mark Stanley Price’s passing last week, one of our board members, our dear friend and a giant in the conservation arena. Present at the organization’s creation, and at the 2012 technical workshop in N’Djaména that endorsed the plan to go ahead with scimitar-horned oryx reintroduction…

  • Thank you for this year together!

    As 2022 draws to a close, we wanted to thank you for your continued support throughout the year. The past 12 months have seen many great accomplishments, all of which you have made possible. Thank you for your commitment to Sahara Conservation.Thanks to your support, we have many successes to celebrate together. SPECIES CONSERVATION CHAD…

  • Sandscript #30 – One Health Approaches in antelope reintroduction programs

    The Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve in Chad is the only place in the world where three species of highly endangered antelope – dama gazelle, scimitar-horned oryx, and addax – can all be found together. When the seasonal rains fall – about July to September of each year – pastoralist families and their livestock also…

  • Sandscript #30 – Antelope darting protocols in Chad

    The tele-anesthesia and chemical immobilization of wild antelopes that the Government of Chad, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and Sahara Conservation strive to conserve falls under the responsibility of EAD veterinarians. The ultimate goal is to safely anesthetize individual animals from a distance to allow veterinarians and researchers to undertake the required procedures.…

  • Sandscript #30 – Translocation in conservation: to crate or not to crate?

    Humans have been translocating animals around for thousands of years. Initially for food and fiber, more recently for conservation. Sometimes, this can be as simple as encouraging a herd to walk in the direction you need or putting a lead rope or leash on an animal and leading it where you need it to go.Sometimes,…

  • Sandscript #30 – Vaccinating antelopes before their reintroduction: a necessity?

    Since 2016, the Government of Chad and the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), with the participation of Sahara Conservation, have been translocating scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), addax (Addax nasomaculatus), and dama gazelles (Nanger Dama) from the United Arab Emirates to Chad, into the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve. For this project to be a…

  • Sandscript #30 – A long-running story: the enduring search for health security common to humans, livestock and wildlife

    1967. North-East Chad, somewhere towards Abéché in a region that is now gazetted as the Ouadi Rimé – Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve (OROAFR). Farcha Veterinary Research Laboratory (now IRED, Livestock Development Research Institute) is on a field mission to study the epidemiology of Rift Valley fever (RVF) (Maurice & Baille, 1967), a zoonotic arbovirus infection…

  • Sandscript #30 – From injection to management: the veterinarian’s pathway in wildlife conservation

    Avian influenza with a highly pathogenic H1N1 virus, SARS, Ebola, Covid-19, Monkeypox, etc.: the early 21st century has confirmed time and again that the boundaries between wild and domestic health categories were far from being impervious. François Lamarque Read here the first article of Sandscript 30th issue It has also demonstrated that the transmission of…

  • Sandscript #30 is out!

    Dear readers, We are really happy to introduce you to the 30th issue of Sandscript, the bi-annual publication of Sahara Conservation. On this occasion, Sandscript has a new look, but also a new style: for the first time, you will be able to find in our magazine a thematic approach to conservation. This issue is…

  • Webinar – One health and conservation in the Sahara and Sahel region

    Good conservation = Good health “Human health and animal health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems in which they exist” (OIE). What is the role of the One Health approach in wildlife conservation? Wildlife conservation faces many threats like habitat degradation and loss, overexploitation, and impacts of wildlife diseases on population…

  • In Memoriam: Gustavo Fonseca

    Introduction. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed ornare libero sed leo interdum cursus. Duis volutpat ante vitae odio rhoncus accumsan. All of us at SaharaConservation join the rest of the conservation community in mourning the loss of a great conservation leader, Gustavo Fonseca, who passed away on August 31, 2022. He will…

  • 21st SSIG meeting: videos and proceedings

    Since 2001, the Sahel and Sahara Interest Group (SSIG) meeting has been a regular forum for everyone working in wildlife conservation within the arid areas of North Africa and the Middle East. The meeting provides an opportunity to bring people together to share ideas and projects, and to continue a strong tradition of collaboration on…

  • Aerial survey of the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve

    An aerial survey of the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve (OROAGR), originally planned by the Project Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim (POROA) for 2020, but delayed by covid impact, was conducted last November. The objective was to provide updated information on the numbers and distribution of wildlife and livestock and record other environmental elements such as human activity and…

  • Forests, water and… Sahara

    International Day of Forests yesterday, World Water Day today… Two elements critically missing to Sahara, yet vital. So why talk about it, you would ask? To raise awareness and shed some light on the challenges faced by the wildlife in Sahel and Sahara. Chad’s Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve was established by Presidential decree on May 10, 1969.…

  • 2022 Sahel & Sahara Interest Group meeting

    Since 2001, the Sahel and Sahara Interest Group (SSIG) meeting has been an annual forum for everyone working in wildlife conservation within the arid areas of North Africa and the Middle East. Facilitated by SaharaConservation (previously Sahara Conservation Fund), the meeting provides an opportunity to bring people together to share ideas and projects, and to continue a…

  • Reversing the decline of threatened wildlife in the Aïr & Ténéré National Nature Reserve in Niger

    Once widespread in the Sahelo-Saharan region of Africa, the dama gazelle (Nanger dama) is now one of the continent’s most threatened antelope, classified as Critically Endangered by the UICN Red List, with less than 200 animals surviving in the wild. These remaining individuals are split into four widely scattered and isolated populations in Niger and…

  • Birth of a second dama gazelle at the Oryx base in the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve in Chad

    In January 2020, a helicopter capture operation was conducted to translocate gazelles from the Manga region to the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim protected area in central Chad. By bringing back one male among the three captured gazelles, the rescue mission was a success, as a breeding group was created. With the birth of a second dama…

  • The Sahara Conservation Fund signed a US$5 million agreement to implement the ALBIÄ project in Chad

    Today, the Ministry of Environment, Fisheries, and Sustainable Development and the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) signed a US$5 million agreement to implement the ALBIÄ project: a word that appropriately means “environment” in local Arabic. N’Djaména, Chad Monday 30th August 2021 The ALBIÄ project will improve natural resource management and the livelihoods of the populations in…