On February 15, 2024, during the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS), the International Coalition Biodiversity Corridors in Africa convened its Scientific Committee.
“Nature knows no borders”
The event was attended by representatives from the Center for Large Landscape Center (CLLC), the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the Global Initiative for Ungulate Migration (GIUM), the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB), the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territories, the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), this working group made it possible to make progress on the scientific foundations of the project inventory approach in Africa.
The main decisions taken by the Scientific Committee concerned :
- The Coalition’s biodiversity corridor mapping tool, in particular the multi-level scale of the data referenced: both those relating to the landscape and to the action implemented on the corridor concerned; the faunal characteristics with the census of all animal species; the status defining the state of the action on the corridor concerned (area at stake, emerging corridor, project in progress, action in place);
- Country studies: the Coalition’s website will make available “country” analyses of existing corridors, enabling an inventory to be made of existing initiatives and stakeholders on the corridors’ territories: following the example of the Evaluation study, prioritization and action plan for wildlife corridors in Tanzania (2022-2026), driven by TAWIRI in Tanzania, with whom the Colaition has formed a partnership.
