The Wildlife and Marine Protection Organization is demanding protection for the striped hyena after information of herd spotted in the west of the country.
Pulbished on:Tripoli, 24 April 2022 (Lana) The Al Hayat Wildlife and Marine Protection Organisation has demanded that the striped hyena not be attacked for its important role in maintaining environmental balance, stressing that it does not attack humans, and rarely preys on sheep herds.
The organization confirmed, in a statement on its official page, after receiving information about a herd of hyenas spotted in the western region of the country, that the striped hyena is a scavenger animal that contributes significantly to the preservation of the environmental balance, specifically the qualitative and quantitative balance of wild herbivores and carnivore animals, and one type of hyena known as the striped hyena is active in Libya, and sometimes to resort to hunting and prey, where he feeds on small rodents and rabbits and rarely attacks domestic animals for fear of Getting close to humans.
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