Species recovery
Sahara Conservation was born of the urgent need to address a silent and unfolding extinction crisis facing the wildlife of the Sahel and Sahara – by the turn of the century, the scimitar-horned oryx had disappeared from the wild, while species like the addax and dama gazelle only existed in small fragmented populations in a fraction of their former range.
Our goal is to halt the decline and reverse the fortunes of wildlife in the region, re-building robust populations and re-wilding the Sahel and the Sahara.
