Conservation
Conservation in the Sahara
The Living Desert is a founding partner and participant in the Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group and the Sahara Conservation Fund. These groups steer a high impact, broad-based North African conservation effort; the strongest voice in the world for saving the many critically endangered species that roam the Sahara. The Living Desert has been involved in faunal surveys in the Termit of Niger, supporting cheetah surveys in Algeria, and Sahara-wide endangered species planning with African and European partners.
In December 2007, The Living Desert's Vice President and COO, Terrie Correll, traveled to Tunisia to witness and advise the first reintroduction of US-born addax and scimitar-horned oryx to the wild. At the same time, one addax (studbook #4771) born at The Living Desert in 2005, eleven other captive born addax and nine captive born oryx were shipped to Tunisia for this project. The goal is to establish a meta-population for the endangered addax and the extinct-in-the-wild scimitar-horned oryx in Tunisia. The sites for this phase of the project are the Djebil and Dghoumes National Parks on the edge of the Grand Erg Oriental of the Sahara. See www.saharaconservation.org.
In December 2007, The Living Desert's Vice President and COO, Terrie Correll, traveled to Tunisia to witness and advise the first reintroduction of US-born addax and scimitar-horned oryx to the wild. At the same time, one addax (studbook #4771) born at The Living Desert in 2005, eleven other captive born addax and nine captive born oryx were shipped to Tunisia for this project. The goal is to establish a meta-population for the endangered addax and the extinct-in-the-wild scimitar-horned oryx in Tunisia. The sites for this phase of the project are the Djebil and Dghoumes National Parks on the edge of the Grand Erg Oriental of the Sahara. See www.saharaconservation.org.
