Wildlife of Western Sahara information

The wildlife of Western Sahara is composed of its flora and fauna. It has 40 species of mammals and 207 species of birds. Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn...

The Sahara (/səˈhɑːrə/, /səˈhærə/) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest...

Provinces or Moroccan Sahara are the terms utilized by the Moroccan government to refer to the occupied territory of Western Sahara. These designations...

of Western Sahara, but controls only the easternmost one-fifth of that territory. Between 1884 and 1975, Western Sahara was known as Spanish Sahara,...

Atlas of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Environment of Western Sahara Climate of Western Sahara Ecoregions in Western Sahara Wildlife of Western Sahara...

Endangered. The North African ostrich is part of a project by the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) with the aim of saving the subspecies from extinction and...

defined to include the western portion of the Maghreb (Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), occupies an area in excess of 6,140,000 km2, or approximately...

biogeographic realms. The north sits in the Palearctic which extends south from the Sahara to roughly 19° north latitude and the south is in the Afrotropic realm....

Cabo Bojador; French: Cap Boujdour) is a headland on the west coast of Western Sahara, at 26° 07' 37"N, 14° 29' 57"W (various sources give various locations:...

Saharan striped polecat, I. libycus (Sahara) Genus Vormela Marbled polecat, V. peregusna (Southeastern Europe to western China) Subfamily Mustelinae Genus...

territory of Western Sahara. As of 2018, the region had a population of over 100 million people. The Maghreb is usually defined as encompassing much of the...

the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de...

and ninety species of birds have been recorded here. Morocco is a country in northwestern Africa; land borders include Western Sahara in the southwest and...

or headland divided by the border between Mauritania and Western Sahara on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is internationally known as Cabo...

The wildlife of Nigeria consists of the flora and fauna of this country in West Africa. Nigeria has a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangrove...

Hemisphere. Most of the continent lies in the tropics, except for a large part of Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya and Egypt, the northern tip of Mauritania,...

Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the name "Atlantic"...

the South Sahara desert, is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of northern Africa. This band is a transitional region between the Sahara's very arid...

the disputed Western Sahara, shown separately. If the whole of Western Sahara is included (which Morocco controls approximately two-thirds of), the area...

epochs, when northern Africa was wetter than today. The covering of much of the Sahara desert by grasses, trees and lakes was caused by changes in the...

zerda) is a small crepuscular fox native to the deserts of North Africa, ranging from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. Its most distinctive...

discovered in the Algerian Sahara and described in 1858. To date, it has been recorded in several disjunct locations in Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Niger...

al-Khali (The Empty Quarter), one of the largest continuous bodies of sand in the world. It is an extension of the Sahara Desert. Gazelles, oryx, sand cats...