Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary

Infobox_protected_area | name =Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary
Strict Nature Reserve

iucn_category = Ia


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location = Agadez Region, Niger
nearest_city = Fachi, Agadez
lat_degrees = 19
lat_minutes = 29
lat_seconds = 4
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 9
long_minutes = 30
long_seconds = 13
long_direction = E
area = 12,800 km²
established = 1 January 1988
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governing_body = Parcs Nationaux & Reserves - Niger, UNESCO
world_heritage_site =573 The Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary is a nature reserve in the north center of the nation of Niger. The reserve forms part of the larger Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve covers 77,360 square kilometres, of which 12,800 square kilometres form the Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary.

The Sanctuary exists to protect the critically endangered Addax, which once roamed much of the Aïr Mountains and Ténéré desert. Established 1 January 1988, the sanctuary IUCN type Ia [ [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=9024&level=nat nep-wcmc site record] ] Strict Nature Reserve, the most restricted faunal reserve in Niger.

Plans in the early 1990s to reintroduce captive bred Addax into the sanctuary were derailed by the advent of the 1990s Tuareg insurgency, while reimplementation has been stopped by fighting which erupted in 2007. [Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans pp. 14-21] As of 2006, it was feared that whatever Addax population remained in the sanctuary was no longer self sustaining. [ [http://www.saharaconservation.org/pictures/uploaded/files/CMS%20Addax%20Chapter.pdf. Roseline C. Beudels-Jamar, Pierre Devillers, René-Marie Lafontaine and John Newby. ADDAX NASOMACULATUS] , CMS report, 2007, Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique.]

ee also

*Addax nasomaculatus
*Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve

References

*Rod East, David P. Mallon, Steven Charles Kingswood. [http://books.google.com/books?id=n22ER5vZqTkC Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans] . International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. IUCN (1988) ISBN 2831700167 pp. 14-21, 168
* [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=72350&level=nat unep-wcmc site record]
* [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/ World Database on Protected Areas / UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008.]
* [http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/bio_cou_562.pdf Biodiversity and Protected Areas-- Niger] , Earth Trends country profile (2003)