Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) on the bank of the Breede River, Bontebok National Park, near Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa. The bont

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Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) on the bank of the Breede River, Bontebok National Park, near Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa. The bontebok was brought back from the edge of extinction when only 17 animals remaind and now occurs in small isolated populations. It is threatened by low genetic diversity, population fragmentation, habitat fragmentation and hybridization. Most of the vegetation types that constituted the bontebok’s original habitat are classified as Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered, resulting in 70% of the habitat being threatened.

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