Gadabédji reserve

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Gadabédji reserve

IUCN Category II - National Park

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location Niger
surface 680 km²
WDPA ID 3230
Geographical location 15 ° 9 '  N , 7 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 15 ° 9 '0 "  N , 7 ° 11' 0"  E
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Map of Niger
Setup date 1955
administration Directorate for Wildlife, Hunting and Protected Areas

The Gadabédji Reserve ( French : Réserve de Gadabédji ) is a nature reserve in Niger .

location

The Gadabédji reserve is located in the north of the municipality of Gadabédji in the Maradi region . It is located in the Sahel zone on the southern edge of the Sahara desert .

Characteristic

Acacia species such as the Verek acacia and the umbrella acacia , desert dates , Bauhinien , Kinkéliba , marula trees and Guiera senegalensis grow in the dune landscape of the Gadabédji reserve . For wildlife include Dama gazelles , oryx , African ostriches , warthogs , aardvark , cheetahs , African wild dogs , Korrigums , bat-eared foxes and Ethiopian wolves .

In addition to poaching, illegal transhumance is one of the greatest threats to wildlife. A lack of staff makes it difficult to monitor the nature reserve. The management of the Gadabédji reserve is the responsibility of the Directorate for Wildlife, Hunting and Protected Areas in the Nigerien Ministry of Water, Environment and Combating Desertification .

history

In the 1930s, the area was still one of the richest game in Niger. The increasing nomadic livestock farming and hunting by sedentary Hausa from the 1940s onwards threatened the animal world to such an extent that the French colonial administration founded the Gadabédji Reserve in 1955 to protect it. In the founding decree (and in many other sources) the area of ​​the reserve was given as 76,000 hectares, but later calculations showed an actual area of ​​68,000 hectares. From 1989 to 1991 a reintroduction program for oryx antelopes was carried out. In 1991, balsam-milkweed bushes were planted on the eastern and western borders of the nature reserve , but only those in the western part survived. In 2006, the Nigerien state applied to UNESCO to include the Gadabédji Reserve on the World Heritage List .

literature

  • Seydou Kimba: Etude des possibilités de réintroduction des espèces ligneuses et herbacées disparues dans la réserve de faune de Gadabédji Dakoro . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1991.
  • Ibro Oumarou: Elaboration d'un plan d'aménagement de la réserve de faune de Gadabédji, analysis-diagnostic . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Réserve de Gadabédji . Website of the Center d'Echange d'Informations sur la Biodiversité du Niger, published on July 16, 2008, accessed on March 10, 2012.
  2. ^ IUCN : Parcs et réserves du Niger: Evaluation de l'efficacité de gestion des aires protégées . Ouagadougou 2010, ISBN 978-2-8317-1314-4 ( online version ; PDF; 15.7 MB), p. 16.
  3. ^ IUCN : Parcs et réserves du Niger: Evaluation de l'efficacité de gestion des aires protégées . Ouagadougou 2010, ISBN 978-2-8317-1314-4 ( online version ; PDF; 15.7 MB), pp. 61–65.
  4. ↑ Entry in the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage in French , accessed on March 10, 2012.