Europe|Endangered Gazelles Make a Comeback on the Edge of a War Zone
Wild Mountain gazelles in the protected zone in Kirikhan on the Turkish/Syrian border.Credit.Ivor Prickett for The New York Times
Endangered Gazelles Make a Comeback on the Edge of a War Zone
Hunted nearly to extinction worldwide, a wild mountain gazelle finds a helping hand on the Turkish-Syrian border.
Wild Mountain gazelles in the protected zone in Kirikhan on the Turkish/Syrian border.Credit.Ivor Prickett for The New York Times
March 17, 2021
KIRIKHAN, Turkey Turkey’s southern border with Syria has become a place of hardship and misery, with tented camps for people displaced by a decade of war on the Syrian side and a concrete wall blocking entrance to Turkey for all but the most determined.