In the framework of the greater flamingo project, the Tour du Valat – in collaboration with a local team – has just published an action plan for the greater flamingo in Algeria. The aim of the plan is to study and protect the species nationwide, although with particular recommendations concerning the Garaet Ezzemoul and Sebkha d’El Goléa sites.
The action plan – drawn up by Arnaud Béchet, Head of the Flamingo Project at the Tour du Valat and Boudjema Samraoui, Professor at the University of Guelma and Director of the Wetlands Laboratory in Algeria – was commissioned in the framework of a research and conservation project concerning the greater flamingo in Algeria carried out between 2006 and 2009 and financed by the MAVA Foundation. It was drawn up in response to the need to initiate the scientific monitoring of the species and the active protection of a new breeding site discovered between 2003 and 2005 on the high plateaux of the Constantine region, Garaet Ezzemoul. During the project, an additional breeding site was discovered at Sebkha d’El Goléa in the Algerian Sahara.
The plan therefore presents concrete actions to be performed during the course of the year in order to study and respect the species throughout Algeria. Specific recommendations are also made for the breeding sites in particular.