The dorcas gazelle is the member of the genus Gazella best adapted to dry areas, living in savannah, semi-desert, dune fields and wadis.
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The Mammal Diversity Database lists the dorcas gazelle in Algeria, northern Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, southern Israel, western Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, northern Somalia, northern Sudan and Tunisia; it describes records in northern Nigeria as vagrant and in Senegal as seasonal, with reintroduction there. A regional assessment published in 2023 describes the gazelle as a rare visitor to Jordan.
Approved version OWNER-REVIEW-20261028T123843366 · last approved 28 October 2026
Sources list the dorcas gazelle in North Africa, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Negev and Sinai. A regional assessment published in 2023 restricts its regional distribution to the far north-west, describing it as a rare visitor to Jordan and noting that it may no longer occur in Sinai; these sources do not list Saudi Arabia within its current range.