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Arabian ‘Unicorn’ Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

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arabian oryx desert dubai photo A pair of oryx in Dubai. Photo: neekoh.fi / Creative Commons. A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until recently, the real animal had beco...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project

3:55 am in alternative energy, deserts, endangered species, solar, solar technology, Travel & Nature, turtles by TreeHugger

desert-tortoise.jpg Threatened desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Photo by Beth Jackson/US Fish and Wildlife Service The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of construction while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management assesses whether more than 3,000 acres of tortoise habitat would be lost. It is believed t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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