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This shows some of the world's
200 remaining wild addax in
Termit and Tin Toumma National
Nature Reserve in Niger
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December 2013: The world's largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations according to a study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Zoological Society of London.
The scientists assessed 14 desert species and found that a shocking half of those are regionally extinct or confined to one percent or less of their historical range. The Bubal hartebeest is extinct; the scimitar horned oryx is extinct in the wild; and the African wild dog and African lion have vanished from the Sahara.
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