Species: Addax
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Sahara Conservation’s 2023 Annual Report
We are pleased to present Sahara Conservation’s 2023 Annual Report, highlighting a year of groundbreaking conservation successes and strategic partnerships. We extend our heartfelt thanks to our teams, partners and supporters for their dedication and shared vision, making 2023 a landmark year for Sahara Conservation. To learn more about our impact, you can access the…
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Our highlights 2023 and Looking ahead
Together we are making a difference in one of the most challenging environments on Earth! As a result of our global and local partnerships, there is good news for some of the world’s most threatened and unique species and ecosystems. Encouraged by this progress, we approach 2024 with more ambitious aspirations for these important wildlife…
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Sandscript #30 – One Health Approaches in antelope reintroduction programs
The Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve in Chad is the only place in the world where three species of highly endangered antelope – dama gazelle, scimitar-horned oryx, and addax – can all be found together. When the seasonal rains fall – about July to September of each year – pastoralist families and their livestock also…
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Sandscript #30 – Antelope darting protocols in Chad
The tele-anesthesia and chemical immobilization of wild antelopes that the Government of Chad, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and Sahara Conservation strive to conserve falls under the responsibility of EAD veterinarians. The ultimate goal is to safely anesthetize individual animals from a distance to allow veterinarians and researchers to undertake the required procedures.…
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Sandscript #30 – Translocation in conservation: to crate or not to crate?
Humans have been translocating animals around for thousands of years. Initially for food and fiber, more recently for conservation. Sometimes, this can be as simple as encouraging a herd to walk in the direction you need or putting a lead rope or leash on an animal and leading it where you need it to go.Sometimes,…
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Sandscript #30 – Vaccinating antelopes before their reintroduction: a necessity?
Since 2016, the Government of Chad and the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), with the participation of Sahara Conservation, have been translocating scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), addax (Addax nasomaculatus), and dama gazelles (Nanger Dama) from the United Arab Emirates to Chad, into the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve. For this project to be a…
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Sandscript #30 is out!
Dear readers, We are really happy to introduce you to the 30th issue of Sandscript, the bi-annual publication of Sahara Conservation. On this occasion, Sandscript has a new look, but also a new style: for the first time, you will be able to find in our magazine a thematic approach to conservation. This issue is…
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EAD celebrates first critically endangered addax born in the wild in Chad
ABU DHABI — The Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi (EAD) announced that the first wild-born Addax calf (Addax nasomaculatus) was born recently in Chad.Within two days of the birth of the first calf, another was born. Both calves belong to a group of 15 addax initially translocated from Abu Dhabi in November 2019 and released into…
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Movements of newly released addax
In mid-January, the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi and the Government of Chad, with implementing partner the Sahara Conservation Fund, released 15 addax into central Chad. These addax were the first of their species to roam this part of Chad in more than 40 years. Shortly after release, the addax split into several groups. First, a…
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Niger will use drones to protect almost extinct addax antelopes
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. https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/11/27/niger-turns-to-drones-to-protect-precious-wildlife
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New observations of dama gazelles in the wild
The Takolokouzet Massif is located in the Aïr & Ténéré National Nature Reserve in Niger. It is home to some iconic species, including the Barbary sheep and the dama gazelle, one of the most endangered antelopes on the planet. It is on Takolokouzet’s plateaus that the reserve’s last dama gazelles find refuge from disturbance and…
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Challenges of sahelo-saharan antelope reintroductions: depletion in the wild vs abundance in captivity
The conservation community is facing a paradox related to the difficulties of reintroducing and/or reinforcing some species which are declining and disappearing in the wild while the number of individuals keeps increasing in captivity and overpopulation is becoming an issue, e.g.: scimitar-horned oryx and addax in zoos and private collections. Thomas Rabeil Based on the…
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Developing a regional action plan for addax and dama gazelle
Addax and dama gazelle were formerly distributed widely across the Sahara and Sahel. A catastrophic decline has taken place, especially during the last 40 years, that has brought both species close to extinction in the wild. Wild populations of addax and dama gazelle are now limited to a tiny number of small fragments of their…
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Humans may have killed all but 3 of these animals in the wild
There are only three Saharan addax — corkscrew-horned antelope native to the sandy deserts of eastern Niger and western Chad — left in the wild. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/addax-only-3-left_n_572f66c9e4b016f378962497?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000048
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Only three addax antelopes left in the wild?
Is this the end for the addax (Addax nasomaculatus)? The IUCN reported today that extensive surveys of addax habitat in Niger found just three of these critically endangered antelopes left in the wild. The last animals were located after a 700 kilometer ground search, huddled together in what the IUCN described as a “very nervous” group. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/three-addax-left/
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Black Gold Or White
In the fall of 2008, Niger began drilling for oil in the Tin Toumma desert to the east of the country. Tin Toumma is where SCF and its partners are working to set up a vast new national nature reserve. It is also home to the world’s last viable population of addax. Will the search…
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Bringing the addax back to the wild
Bringing the addax back to the wild Once roaming in vast numbers across the Sahara’s arid landscapes, the addax has faced a dramatic decline. Now, with fewer than 100 individuals remaining in the wild, this nomadic desert antelope is one of the world’s most endangered species, listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.…
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Addax
Addax The addax antelope is one of the rarest and most endangered species on earth. Illegal hunting has brought addax to the brink of extinction, with less than 100 alive in the wild in Chad and Niger. The addax is a relatively short-legged, stocky antelope (95-105 kg) with long corkscrew horns, strong facial markings and…