environmental sector. Furthermore, these private stakeholders are more often consulted when mobilizing financial resources for a better management of the environment. (3) Cooperation with other sectors of Government : 339. This plan is carried out by incorporating environmentally-related management and sanitation issues and principles into strategies, programmes and activities of other sectors such as agriculture, animal husbandry, education, water systems, industry, transport, energy, mines, town and country planning, trade as well as economic, sanitation and social programmes at the national 135 level . (c) Intensification of controls in the area of environmental and natural resource degradation as part of compliance with international commitments (1) Combating desertification and land degradation : 340. This is executed within the context of the implementation of the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification and Policies developed by the government for its effective implementation. A national action plan for combating desertification (PAN-LCD), linked to the National Environmental Action Plan (PNAE) has been developed. The government’s strategy is modeled on the Convention and it aims, among others, at:  Creating a multi-purpose wood village ;  Controlling bushfires;  Controlling wind and water erosion;  Restoring and repopulating degraded habitats ;  Restoring certain threatened or endangered species ;  Controlling salination and acidification of soils ;  Controlling ground and surface water ;  Rationalizing the energy economy and promoting renewable energy ;  Improving food and energy self-sufficiency ;  Regenerating degraded natural formations. (2) Management of bio-diversity 136 : 135 In actual fact, many of the legal texts regulate the environment and natural resources. It comprises mainly Law No 64-46 of 17 June 1964 on the national domain Act and its implementing texts, Law No 81-13 of 4 March 1981 on the Water Code and its implementing Decrees, Law No 83-71 of 5 July 1983 on the Hygiene Code , Law No 8604 of 24 January 1986 on the Hunting and Wildlife Protection Code and its Implementing Decree No 86-844 of 14 July 1986, Law No 88-05 of 20 June 1988 on Town and Country Planning Code, Law No 98-32 of 14 April 1998 on Maritime Fisheries Code and its Implementing Decree and Law No 2003-36 of 12 November 2003 on the Mining Code and its Implementing Decree. 136 See National Statistical and Demographic Agency, Economic and Social Situation of Senegal in 2011, pages 182184. 78