Conservation
Algeria Dayet Oum el Ghellaz
Photo:
Aïssa Moali
In common with many African countries, Algeria has a number of environmental issues including inadequate supplies of drinking water, soil erosion from overgrazing and other poor farming practices, desertification, dumping of raw sewage, petroleum refining wastes, the pollution of rivers and coastal waters. The Mediterranean, in particular, is becoming polluted from oil wastes, soil erosion, and fertiliser run-off.
Algeria is party to a number of international agreements including Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution and Wetlands.
Algeria is also party to the Ramsar convention and 40 sites have been classified as wetlands of international importance.
Following a decline until 1991, the breeding population of European White Stork Ciconia ciconia in Algeria has increased. Surveys carried out in the period 1995 to 2001 indicated a 75% increase in breeding pairs during that period (MOALI-GRINE, N., MOALI, A. et ISENMANN, P. 2004)
The second national seminar on wetlands was held at Béjaïa on the 20th to 22nd November 2005. Contact Aïssa Moali aissa.moali@caramail.com for further information.
An "International Conference on Algerian ornithology" will be held in Batna from 11-13th November 2006. Further details can be found at www.univ-atna.dz/cioalgeria.
A seminar on "Mediterranean meetings on ecology" will be held in Bejaia from 7-9th November 2006. Contact remedeco@yahoo.fr.
Newsletter 3 of the International Advisory Group for Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita includes a review of its historical distribution in Algeria (FELLOUS, A. 2004). The following photographs show its last reported breeding area and nesting cliffs at El Bayadh.
Algeria El Bayadh
Photos: Amina Fellous
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