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This aerial view shows a Rhim gazelle grazing at the Sawa wildlife reserve in the desert of Samawa in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna on June 8, 2022. Gazelles at the Iraqi wildlife reserve are dropping dead from lack of food, making them the latest victims in a country where climate change adds to the burdens after years of war. In little over one month, the slender-horned gazelle population at the reserve has dropped from 148 to 87. Lack of funding along with a shortage of rain has deprived them of food, another reflection of the country's drought which has dried up lakes and led to declining crop yields. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classes the animals as endangered on its Red List. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)
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