A new landmark study in Diversity and Distributions finds that the megafauna of the Sahara desert are on the verge of total collapse.
Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1203-hance-sahara-big-animal-crisis.html
Almost 90% of Saharan big animals are extinct or endangered
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