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Another beautiful animal on the verge of extinction..
Palestine mountain gazelle now endangered, say scientists
Palestine mountain gazelle now endangered, say scientists
Zoologists are recommending that one of the Middle East’s most iconic mammals – the Palestine mountain gazelle – be placed on the endangered list amid a dramatic decline in its numbers in the last decade and a half.
Numbers of the gazelles, whose habitat is in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – including a population that lives in the hills on the outskirts of Jerusalem – have dropped to about 2,000 identified individuals.
The tan, white and black gazelles are a familiar sight in the Jerusalem forest, occasionally straying into the city itself.
That has led experts to fear that the animals could soon go the same way as their closest relatives who once lived in Syria and Egypt and are now believed to be extinct.