IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group 2006. Strategie de Conservation du Lion en Afrique de l'ouest et du Centre.

La situation du lion a attire I'attention internationale lors de la treizieme Conference des Parties de la ClTES (COP13) en octobre 2004. En effet, il avait ete proposé le transfert du lion de I'annexe II à I'annexe I. Ceci a suscité un débat intense entre les pays de I'aire de répartition en Afrique qui a conduit a I'abrogation de la proposition. Néanmoins les états ont reconnu la nécessité de tenir une série d'ateliers sur la conservation du lion afin d'aboutir à un Consensus panafricain sur la conservation du lion. L'Union Mondiale pour la Nature (UICN) a été chargée d'organiser ces ateliers devant réunir tous les acteurs afin de développer des stratégies sous-regionales en utilisant une approche participative basée sur un cadre logique. L'UICN devrait s'associer au Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) pour élaborer des cartes de distribution des lions et des aires de priorité pour la conservation du lion.

IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group 2006. Conservation Strategy for the Lion in West and Central Africa.

The West and Central African lion conservation workshop was held October 2-7 in Douala, Cameroon. 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 session, which developed the West and Central African Lion Conservation Strategy. Participants in this session included representatives of range state governments, national and international NGOs, research institutions and Professional Hunters.

The participants of both sessions identified threats to the lion in West and Central Africa. Leading threats include habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, reduction of wild prey, lion-human conflict and increased extinction vulnerability due to small population size.

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IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group 2006. Regional Conservation Strategy for the Lion in Eastern and Southern Africa.

The situation of the lion drew international attention at the October 2004 CITES

COP13 (13th Conference of the Parties to CITES). A proposal to transfer the lion

to Appendix I and restrict trade in lion trophies sparked extensive debate among

African Range States, and highlighted the need to achieve pan-African

consensus on the way forward for lion conservation. The proposal was

withdrawn, and Range States agreed that a series of regional lion conservation

workshops should be held. IUCN-The World Conservation Union was asked to

organize workshops which would bring together stakeholders to develop regional

lion conservation strategies using a participatory approach based on a logical

framework (Appendix 1). IUCN partnered with a parallel initiative of the Wildlife

Conservation Society to map current lion range and priority areas for lion

conservation.

The Eastern and Southern African Lion Conservation Workshop was held

January 8-13, 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa (Appendix 2). It followed a

similar regional workshop for lions in West and Central Africa held in Douala,

Cameroon in October, 2005 (IUCN SSC Cat SG, 2006).