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  • Its vast savannas shelter a wide variety of species: black rhinoceros, elephant, cheetah, leopard, wild dog, red-fronted gazelle and buffalo; a wide range of waterfowl species also occurs in the northern floodplains.

    Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009

  • Small populations of roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons), dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas), and dama gazelle (Gazella dama) are believed to still exist.

    Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna 2008

  • Other desert antelopes may still be found in small numbers, such as slender-horned gazelle (Gazella leptoceros, EN), Dama gazelle (Gazella dama, EN) and the red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons, VU).

    Saharan halophytics 2008

  • Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi), and the red-fronted brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus) are both found in this ecoregion.

    Madagascar succulent woodlands 2008

  • The main species threatened by hunting are the tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), fruit bats (Pteropus rufus and Eidolon helvum), and the red-fronted brown lemur.

    Madagascar succulent woodlands 2008

  • Other desert antelopes may still be found in small numbers, such as slender-horned gazelle (Gazella leptoceros, EN), dama gazelle (Gazella dama, EN) and the red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons, VU).

    Sahara desert 2007

  • This isolated rugged habitat supports endemic plant and small animal species, and provides critical habitat for populations of some larger antelopes, such as the threatened addax (Addax nasomaculatus), dama gazelle (Gazella dama), dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas), and red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons).

    East Saharan montane xeric woodlands 2007

  • Addax (Addax nasomaculatus CR), dama gazelle (Gazella dama EN), dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas VU), and red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons VU) are all found here.

    East Saharan montane xeric woodlands 2007

  • Looking up at the large, red-fronted building, with its countless uncurtained windows, Joan realized that the man's description was probably nearer the truth than her own.

    To Love Margaret Peterson 1908

  • It is safe to say that the members of the Halcyon Club had never listened to anything quite like the account that Achilles Alexandrakis gave them that day, in the gloomy room of the red-fronted house overlooking the lake, of the land of his birth.

    Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

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