Behind the scenes of antelope conservation with Sophie Whitemore

Behind the scenes of antelope conservation with Sophie Whitemore

By Jasmine Santilhano, Marwell Wildlife Conservation Placement Student On a sweltering Tuesday afternoon, Sophie Whitemore looks out of her office window. The sky is a hazy blue, the grass is sun-bleached, and the trees stand almost still in the heavy summer heat. But there is something else, something that marks this as no ordinary office view: in the distance, a small herd of scimitar-horned oryx are grazing. They are a symbolic reminder of Ma…