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IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, (ed)
Conservation Strategy for the Lion in West and Central Africa (French)
2006  Full Book

The West and Central African lion conservation workshop was held in Douala, Cameroon in October, 2005 (IUCN SSC Cat SG, 2006). It had two parts. In the first technical session, lion specialists working in the region contributed their data on the status and distribution of lion populations. This information fed into the second strategic planning session, which developed the West and Central African Lion Conservation Strategy. Participants in this session included representatives of Range State governments, national and international NGO's and the safari hunting industry. The participants in each workshop session identified threats to the lion in West and Central Africa. The technical session identified factors having the greatest influence over viability of important lion populations in the region: habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation; reduction of wild prey; lion-human conflict; and increased extinction vulnerability due to small population size. Recognizing that these problems will require international, national and local resources to solve, this strategy has a global vision of a future in which West and Central Africa manage their natural resources sustainably. The goal of this strategy is to ensure the conservation and sustainable management of the lion in West and Central Africa. The present strategy is then at the regional level, in order to produce significant impacts. But it must be followed by the development of national action plans of conservation of species (because it is on this level that the strategy actions are implemented).

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