While the congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature opens this Friday in Marseille, to fight against the rapid decline in biodiversity, 7,762 animal species are in critical danger of extinction.
Hirola is one of these endangered species.
This ungulate nicknamed four-eyed gazelle because of its pre-orbital glands, is on the list of the 100 most endangered species in the world.
There remain only 400 individuals present only in Kenya, when they were 16,000 in 1979 in the region.
The reason ?
The intensification of periods of drought which weakens plants and trees deprives animals of their food source.
Discover the hirola and the dangers that threaten it in the video of our partner Brut.
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