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HIrola Conservation Programme
Contributing IUCN constituents:Hirola Conservation Programme
Project Details
| Name | HIrola Conservation Programme |
| Description | The Hirola Conservation Programme (HCP) is a non-profit organization established (in 2008 and formerly registered in 2014) as a result of global concern about the declining hirola populations. It was established to build the local capacity to spearhead conservation in the volatile region along the Kenya-Somalia border. The hirola antelope (Beatragus hunteri) is arguably the world’s most endangered antelope restricted to areas along the Kenya-Somalia border and outside formally protected areas. HCP’s approach to hirola conservation is multi-faceted and involves field-based conservation, research, environmental education, and community engagement. Their community-based conservation approach has been successful in promoting evidence-based species conservation and bridging the gap between the local communities and conservation agencies in an otherwise historically prohibitive region due to cultural barriers between the Somalis and other ethnic groups. By promoting community-based protected area establishment and management, HCP has been instrumental in reducing poaching incidents, overgrazing by livestock, and human-wildlife conflicts. HCP recognizes that the long-term survival of the species ultimately hinges on the support of local communities. As such HCP works with the local communities to run the conservancies, for instance, their antipoaching unit includes locally recruited and trained rangers who patrol the protected areas each day. HCP’s field activities and research have been instrumental in filling vital ecological knowledge gaps and understanding the underlying factors influencing hirola declines. Our research aims to explore the best management interventions to curtail ongoing declines. HCP also intervenes during emergencies to provide relief to hirola, other wildlife, and local communities during drought, floods, and contagious disease outbreaks. |
| Contributing IUCN Constituent | Hirola Conservation Programme |
| Start Date | 3/31/2017 |
| End Date | 4/29/2027 |
| Conservation Actions | 1.2 Resource & Habitat Protection1.1 Site/Area Protection2.2 Invasive/Problematic Species Control2.3 Habitat & Natural Process Restoration4.2 Training4.3 Awareness & Communications6.1 Linked Enterprises & Livelihood Alternatives |
| Needed annual budget | - |
| Total annual budget | - |
| Staff | ♀ - | ♂ - |
| Beneficiaries | ♀ - | ♂ - |
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
This stacked bar chart represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.
% Contribution of threats to species extinction
1.37%
7.1 Fire & fire suppression
1.37%
6.3 Work & other activities
1.90%
1.1 Housing & urban areas
1.92%
3.3 Renewable energy
2.01%
2.2 Wood & pulp plantations
9.36%
5.3 Logging & wood harvesting
9.59%
7.2 Dams & water management/use
9.82%
8.5 Viral/prion-induced diseases
9.86%
2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops
10.07%
11.2 Droughts
11.32%
6.2 War, civil unrest & military exercises
13.40%
5.1 Hunting & collecting terrestrial animals
16.11%
2.3 Livestock farming & ranching
Threat type