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Scimitar-horned Oryx–the End of the Line?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

J. E. Newby
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Abstract

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The author is a biologist working in Chad with WWF support. He explains why he sees the new deep boreholes for watering cattle, installed on the edge of the Sahel by international aid, as the greatest single threat to the survival of arid-land wildlife, especially the scimitar-horned oryx.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , June 1978 , pp. 219 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1978

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