General Situation during February 2016
Forecast until mid-April 2016
Desert Locust breeding continued during February in northern Mauritania and in adjacent small groups. Ground control operations increased in both areas. Although breeding is likely to continue during the forecast period and cause a further increase in locust numbers and the formation of hopper and adult groups, the situation is expected to remain under control. As temperatures increase, low to moderate numbers of adults could move to spring breeding areas south of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Algeria and breed if rainfall occurs. Low numbers of locusts continued to persist in parts of the winter breeding areas along both sides of the Red Sea in Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Breeding will decline in these areas. The situation remained calm in southwest Asia. Small-scale breeding is likely to occur in parts of southeastern Iran.