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| Wildlife and Protected Area Management | |
| 2007 Book Chapter | |
The past few decades have witnessed a major assault on wildlife and their habitat. In northern and central Sudan, the greatest damage has been inflicted by habitat destruction and fragmentation from farming and deforestation. Larger wildlife have essentially disappeared and are now mostly confined to core protected areas and remote desert regions. In the south, uncontrolled and unsustainable hunting has decimated wildlife populations and caused the local eradication of many of the larger species, such as elephant, rhino, buffalo, giraffe, eland and zebra. Nonetheless, Sudan's remaining wildlife populations, including very large herds of white-eared kob and tiang antelope, are internationally significant. Approximately fifty sites throughout Sudan - covering 10 and 15 percent of the areas of the north and south respectively - are listed as having some form of legal protection. In practice, however, the level of protection afforded to these areas has ranged from slight negligible, and several exist only on paper today. Many of these important areas are located in regions affected by conflict and have hence suffered from a long-term absence of the rule of law. With three exceptions (Dinder, Sanganeb and Dongonab Bay National Parks), the data on wildlife and protected areas is currently insufficient to allow for the development of adequate management plans. |
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