Photos show new generation of gazelles in Georgia's Vashlovani Protected Areas
A state programme for reintroducing the gazelle population into Georgia was launched six years ago. Photo via Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia.
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A new generation of gazelles has been caught on camera in eastern Georgia's Vashlovani Protected Areas, providing further signs of success for the 2014-launched project for reintroducing the population in the country.
Released on social media on Wednesday, pictures snapped by a professional working on monitoring gazelles in the reserve show what the environment ministry said was the sixth generation of the animals born in the location.
A young gazelle leaps in a field in Vashlovani Protected Area. Photo via Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia.
The photographs follow earlier documented material, including a video released last year, in demonstrating a growing population in Vashlovani.
A state programme for reintroducing gazelles in Georgia - following the decimation of their population by poaching in the last century - is run by the ministry alongside the World Wildlife Fund.
Gazelles seen in the plains of the natural reserve. Photo via Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the German state development bank KfW, and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan - neighbouring Georgia from the border adjacent to the Vashlovani Protected Areas - are also involved.
Started in 2014, the project oversaw the birth of the third generation of gazelles born in Vashlovani in 2018, with the latest photographs showing further progress.
At the start of the project the environment ministry called efforts for the reintroduction of gazelles a "big step towards the restoration of biological diversity throughout the region".
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