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 Re: Sudan's breathtaking migration (Re: Abubaker Ahmed)
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But as soon as the plane was up over the grasslands, at the start of 150 hours of flying, their hearts lifted. Dr Fay said: "If you were a gold miner and hit a vein of gold, like we found in kob, you would have found El Dorado."
In addition to the gigantic herds of kob, they produced estimates of 250,000 Mongalla gazelles, a small tan and hite antelope with a black stripe on its flank; 160,000 topi, or tiang, a horned antelope; as well as reedbuck and ostriches.
The review of the wilderness's state of health was not universally positive. In the south-west of the region up to 90% of species had been lost.
"We saw no buffalo where in 1981 there were estimated to have been 60,000 and only one group of elephants was sighted, where some 10,000 had been estimated to roam in the past," said Paul Elkan, head of the WCS's programme in southern Sudan.
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