2007年初飛越蘇丹南部的領空後，保育人士費邁克表示，他所看到的應該是地球上大型哺乳動物規模最龐大的一次遷徙活動。讓科學家如此驚訝的原因在於，尼羅河西部的野生動物在經歷數十年的戰爭後，不僅存活下來，更茁壯地生長，而接下來的問題則是，在2005年簽定和平協議之後，這些動物是否能在資源發展過程中繼續存活下去。
費邁克研究團隊為紐約野生物保育協會所進行的航空調查，證實在南蘇丹有超過120萬隻白耳赤羚、黑面狷羚和蒙古瞪羚存活，而外界一般認為在該處的野生物早就因為戰爭而絕跡。
南蘇丹在經過長年與蘇丹北部的戰爭後，於2005年和平協議簽定，成立自治區，並將在2011年舉辦獨立公投。
這樣一處具有重要全球保育和戰略價值的土地，野生物保育協會已極力推動「蘇丹－薩赫爾計劃」，期望以「剛果盆地森林夥伴關係」模式為基礎，加強對當地的天然資源管理。
"This could represent the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth," said conservationist J. Michael Fay in amazement while flying over Southern Sudan earlier this year. To the scientist's surprise, despite decades of war, wildlife east of the Nile River have not only survived but thrived. The question now is can the animals survive the resource development that quickly followed a 2005 peace agreement.
Aerial surveys conducted by Fay and his team for the New York based Wildlife Conservation Society, WCS, confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have vanished because of war.
After years of fighting northern Sudan, Southern Sudan formed an autonomous region as part of a 2005 peace agreement, and will hold a referendum on independence in 2011.
The Wildlife Conservation Society is calling for the creation of a Sudano-Sahel Initiative, based on the model of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, to foster wise natural resource management in a region of great global conservation value and strategic importance beset by conflict over resources.
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