A survey of lions and wild animals in the Dinder and Jebal El Dair reserves

The Director of the Wildlife Research Center, Dr. Lubna Muhammad Abdullah, confirmed the determination to preserve wildlife as a renewable natural resource to benefit from it and preserve the rights of future generations.

At the opening of a workshop for evaluating the survey operations in the Dinder and Jebal Al-Dinder reserves within the project to strengthen protected areas today at the General Authority for Livestock Research, she explained that the center’s activities are represented in enumerating the types of wildlife in the Al-Dinder Reserve and a general survey that focuses on studying the largest third in the Jabal Al-Dair Reserve and monitoring the basic types of animals. In reserves such as deer Abu Araf, lions, turtles and seabirds, noting that the project began in 2021 and will continue until 2025 with funding from the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Program, and it is implemented by partners, namely the Wildlife Research Center, the Wildlife Protection Forces, the Sudia Organization and the Sudanese Society for Environmental Protection .

She pointed to the importance of building strong partnerships, relations and signing agreements between legislative institutions, university scientific research centers and relevant authorities to protect wild animals of all kinds, which constitute an essential element in the environmental systems of Sudan and to preserve the values of cultural, scientific, tourism and environmental wildlife. Dr. praised Built by the efforts of researchers in the field of wildlife.

Abd Alhafiz Al-Jack , Director of the Project to Strengthen the Management of Protected Areas in Sudan, explained that the workshop comes to evaluate and enumerate wild animals in Al-Dinder and Jebal Al-Dair, in addition to a package of activities, including environmental reform, increasing storage water for natural plants, fighting cellular fire and removing invasive plants, indicating that the project is funded. From the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Program, amounting to 4 million and 600 thousand dollars for a period of five years, and he said, we hope that by the end of the project, management will improve and the preservation of biodiversity. He said that the project has four main components: expanded management of protected areas, improvement of management effectiveness, integrated management of natural resources, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation.