86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered » Focusing on Wildlife

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered » Focusing on Wildlife: "Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that big African animals—which are facing poaching and habitat loss in other parts of the world—would thrive in this vast wilderness. But a new landmark study in Diversity and Distributions finds that the megafauna of the Sahara desert are on the verge of total collapse"

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