Park Management Programme
Management is currently:

• Carrying out phased inventory of the Park’s faunal and floral resources towards updating it for effective and efficient Park planning, evaluation, monitoring and management purposes.
  • Pro-actively strengthening research capacity and activities of the park with a view to working with the outcome of the research findings and recommendations for implementation towards achieving the desired Park objectives.
  • One of such research works recently conducted is; The Documentation of Plant Species in the Wetlands Sector of the Chad Basin National Park, by Mobolaji ,Ajoke S (2011-12).
• Embarking on strategic public enlightenment campaigns on Conservation Education Programme in the identified local communities for joint Park-Community Protection and management of the Park as enshrined in the Park Service Enabling Act 46 of 1999.
• Identifying grey security areas within and immediately around the Park that may require co-operation with security operatives especially as relate to visitation, Park policing and intelligence gathering for concerted Park protection and effective conservation.
• Re-appraising current status of ecotourism resources within and around the Park with a view to identifying the appropriate eco-brand of tourist resources/activities in order to pragmatically plan, evolve, develop and market them to niche tourist markets, where feasible, in partnership with the relevant stake-holders.
• Exploring the possibility of (collective) dredging of the fast-silting Dagona Waterfowl Sanctuary which is the core mega-attraction and recreational Zone of the Wetlands Sector. This may be done in collaboration with relevant Government Establishments and Non-Governmental Organizations involved with biodiversity conservation and management at National, Regional and International levels.
• Encouraging the promotion of sustainable agro-ecosystem practices within the Support Zones for the security and integrity of the Park in co-operation with relevant principal stake-holders.
• Evaluation and monitoring of socio-economic costs and benefits of biodiversity in the granting of concessions for multiple land -use to the Wetlands communities.
• Long-term planning for the provision of functional water reservoirs and free-flow water systems at strategic locations around the famous route of Waza-Chingurmi Migratory Corridor. This is in order to sustain the 6-kilometre corridor which is being used by flagship migratory species (e.g. Giraffes and Elephants, amongst others) between the two ecologically contiguous National Parks.
• Policing and Protecting Waza-Chingurmi corridor which is a crucial trans-frontier ecosystem being threatened with periodic illegal hunting on the Nigerian side, a situation that calls for concerted collaboration between Nigeria and Cameroon to mitigate these trends. A collaborative bilateral programme between Nigeria and Cameroon is therefore being currently explored towards achieving this laudable objective. If successful, then there would be marked improvement in variety of wild animal species build-up and sightings during game viewing by visitors in that axis, thereby reviving visitations to the Park and encouraging trans-border ecotourism between the two countries in the long term.

It is important to stress here that there has been a trans-boundary Conservation Collaboration Programme between Chad Basin National Park (Nigeria) and Waza National Park (Cameroon) over the years. The collaboration came in to effect in 2002. The two (2) respective Parks have had several exchange visits as well as Joint Anti-Poaching Patrols within and across their borders.