Other Reports and Documents
As part of its mission to increase awareness of the Sahara and its natural resources, SCF will
strive to make available a variety of relevant information, both published and informal. We
very much welcome your contributions so please contact us if you have information that you would like to share.
Chad/Tchad
From 1971 to 1979, SCF's CEO, John Newby, worked in Chad as a wildlife biologist, most of this
time in the vast Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve. The reserve harboured some of the
last large remaining populations of scimitar-horned oryx and dama gazelle in the wild. Although
much of Newby's data was lost during the civil unrest that plagued the country at the time,
his observations provide a unique insight into the biology and ecology of the region, as well as
the former abundance of the reserve's wildlife. Newby's Journal for the years 1975 to 1977
can be downloaded below.
John Newby's Chad Journal 1975-1977
