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Conservation of the African Wild Ass (Equus Africanus)

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Conservation of the African Wild Ass (Equus Africanus) (Rev.COP13)

Concerned that the African Wild Ass is likely go extinct in the wild without immediate and decisive intervention,Noting the dire global conservation status of the critically endangered African Wild Ass, which has a maximum of 200, and possibly as few as 50, mature individuals left in the wild, and experienced an approximate 90 per cent decline over its range since the 1980s,Noting that it was once a widespread species across northern Africa and the Horn of Africa, and an intrinsic part of the ecosystem in that region,Concerned about the unabated threats to the species, such as limited access to drinking water and lack of forage, recurrent and extreme droughts throughout the range, and its being hunted for food and medicinal purposes in some parts of the range.The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
1.Encourages current and former Range States to implement the Roadmap for the Conservation of the African Wild Ass, contained in UNEP/CMS/COP12/Inf.19 as the principal strategy for conservation of the African Wild Ass;
2.Urges current and former Range States to include conservation measures stated in the Roadmap for the Conservation of the African Wild Ass within their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs);
3.Invites Range States to develop and implement national legislation to increase the protection of the African Wild Ass;
4.Requests the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea to monitor the existing populations of the African Wild Ass;
5.Requests the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea and invites the former Range States to report to the Conference of the Parties at each meeting and to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Equid Specialist Group on the progress of implementation of the Roadmap for the Conservation of the African Wild Ass;
6.Encourages Parties, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations and donors to provide the technical and voluntary financial support to the Range States and to the Secretariat for implementing the actions set out by the Roadmap for the Conservation of the African Wild Ass;
7.Requests the Secretariat to monitor the implementation of the Roadmap and provide reports on its implementation as well as that of the Resolution to each meeting of the Conference of the Parties.