1978/06/01 by John Newby · 2 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology #Animal Diversity and Health Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0030605300015520
openalex publication_date 1978/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
The author is a biologist working in Chad with WWF support. He explains why he sees the new deep boreholes for watering cattle, installed on the edge of the Sahel by international aid, as the greatest single threat to the survival of arid-land wildlife, especially the scimitar-horned oryx.