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29 March 2024

Carnage at Saudi wildlife reserve

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Unknown human predators intruded into a wildlife reserve in Saudi Arabia and perpetrated a massacre against the endangered Arabian gazelles then wrote the date of their death with the victims’ blood on rocks inside the reserve.

Pictures of dead gazelles published in local newspapers and social networks triggered immediate reaction from the Saudi Wildlife Authority, which condemned the killings as “barbarous and savage” acts that violate Islam.

“These are barbarous, savage and cruel acts that are in a flagrant violation of the tenets of our tolerant religion,” the Authority said in a statement just after pictures of the carnage were published in the Kingdom this week.

Sabq newspaper, which carried those pictures, said the unknown hunters apparently stamped rocks inside the reserve with the animals’ blood “as a flagrant aggression on the country’s wildlife and a defiance of the country’s wildlife regulations.”

It did not say where the reserve is exactly located in Saudi Arabia.