December 4, 2018. For almost 50 years, the highly threatened West African giraffe has been absent from Niger’s Gadabedji Biosphere Reserve.
November 27, 2018. Oft times when we talk about endangered animals in Afrika at risk of extinction or being poached we think mostly of elephants and rhinos. This can be attributed to various factors including increased publicity around the increasing threats that rhinos and elephants face from poachers.
November 22, 2018. Part of a group of a rare giraffes that has become a Niger tourist attraction is to be moved to a reserve 600km away owing to encroaching desert, farmland and increasing instances of them being struck by vehicles, officials said on Wednesday.
October 5, 2018. The Sahelian plains of Chad have welcomed 40 Scimitar-horned oryx calves in 2018, which were born as part of an Abu Dhabi-sponsored programme.
On June 30, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) welcomed a new scimitar-horned oryx, born to mother Rizzo after she was impregnated by an assisted reproduction procedure in October of 2017. The calf’s arrival marks the first birth of an oryx to be conceived through artificial insemination without the need for risky anesthesia.
April 23, 2018. A timely intervention made by the late Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the UAE’s founding father, helped reintroduce a wild animal back to the wild, according to a documentary screened in the capital on Sunday evening about an ambitious international conservation project.
In West Africa, the last populations of the endemic species “Giraffa camelopardalis peralta” are found in Niger, in the plateau area of Koure and Dallol Bosso, covering more than 1,700km2. This population of giraffes was particularly threatened by the disappearance of its habitat (…)
Kouré, à 60 km à l’est de Niamey. Object volant non identifié. Mais quel est cet étrange oiseau qui survole la tête des girafes ? Ce petit drone hexacoptère, équipé d’une caméra, a pour mission d’aller photographier et filmer les troupeaux de girafes blanches du Niger. (…)
February 25, 2018. THE FOREST was moving. Not the lazy sway of wispy sprigs fluttering on gentle zephyrs but branch, bough and trunk were rolling across the landscape, creating a sense of motion sickness.
Lehigh Valley Zoo recently gained a new addition when a scimitar-horned Oryx gave birth June 22. Donnar the Oryx — which is an endangered species of antelope — had a healthy male calf late last month. (…)
