Palestine mountain gazelle now endangered, say scientists

Zoologists report that just 2,000 identified individuals of the species remain after a dramatic decline in the past 15 years

Zoologists are recommending that one of the Middle East's most iconic mammals - the Palestine mountain gazelle - be placed on the endangered list amid a dramatic decline in its numbers in the last decade and a half.

Numbers of the gazelles, whose habitat is in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - including a population that lives in the hills on the outskirts of Jerusalem - have dropped to about 2,000 identified individuals.