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Rare Hirola Antelope Faces Extinction; Conservation Efforts Underway
10/14/2025
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Story summary
- The hirola, the world's rarest antelope, is near extinction near the Kenya–Somalia border, with fewer than 500 individuals.
- An outbreak of rinderpest in the 1980s wiped out 85–90 percent of the population, which had numbered about 15,000 in the 1970s.
- Conservationists are protecting over 404,686 hectares of habitat and restoring grasslands to support the hirola's survival.
