What Animals Live in the African Sahel An escalation in the number of conflicts beyond the Sahara and the Sahel in Africa is driving down numbers of the region'south wildlife, a new study finds. The authors plant that the number of conflicts in the region has risen by 565 percent since 2011. At the same fourth dimension, 12 species of vertebrate have either gone extinct or are much closer to extinction as a consequence of conflicts in the region. The surge in armed conflicts beyond the Sahara Desert and the band of dry out savanna to its s called the Sahel is devastating the region's wild animals, according to recent findings published in the journal Conservation Messages . "As if the harsh, arid mur