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WEST AFRICAN SAVANNA ANTELOPE CONSERVATION INITIATIVE

Main partners: DPN, IUCN SSC ASG 

This project addresses the urgent need for an updated and coordinated conservation assessment of antelopes across the West and Central African savanna belt. Available information is widely outdated and thus failing to reflect the current conservation reality. By activating and coordinating principal conservation agents across the region, the project aims to establish a long-term collaborative network for the research and conservation of both rare and common antelope species, highlighting the key ecological role of antelopes as ecosystem engineers, prey for predators, and source of protein for local populations.

The project envisages delivering updated information about conservation status and threats and coordinated conservation plans to protected area managers, government representatives, and stakeholders to secure antelope populations across the savanna ecosystems of West and Central Africa.  

Target species (with current conservation status as available on the IUCN Red List, last update 2016):

  • Giant eland
  • Western giant eland (Tragelaphus derbianus derbianus), Critically Endangered
  • Eastern giant eland (T. d. gigas), Vulnerable
  • Hartebeest
  • Western hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus major), Vulnerable
  • Lelwel hartebeest (A. l. lelwel), Endangered
  • Korrigum/Tiang
  • Korrigum (Damaliscus lunatus korrigum), Endangered
  • Tiang (D. l. tiang), Least concern
  • Red-fronted gazelle (Eudorcas rufifrons), Vulnerable
  • Roan antelope, Least Concern
  • Western roan (Hippotragus equinus koba)
  • Central African roan (H. e. charicus, H. e. bakeri)
  • Bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), Least Concern
  • Red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus), Least Concern
  • Common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), Least Concern
  • Defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa), Near Threatened
  • Buffon's Kob (Kobus kob kob), Vulnerable
  • Bohor reedbuck (Redunca redunca), Least concern