Oryx, a rare species of antelope that has been extinct in the wild for more than 30 years, is now thriving in a national zoo in Chad. The white-bodied Oryx was reintroduced to its native habitat in Chad from a private zoo in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, (…)
Last September, researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, were sitting at their computers poring over data that had been delivered via satellite from a game reserve in Chad, 6,000 miles away. (…)
Is it foolish to be optimistic about our environment and its future prospects? Every day, we hear dire warnings about the health of the planet and its inhabitants. More than 5 million people around the world die every year because of air pollution. (…)
Animals that veer close to extinction don’t always get a second chance, but scimitar-horned oryx antelopes are now being reintroduced to the Saharan wilderness after disappearing two decades ago. (…)
This week, conservationists will release 23 scimitar-horned Oryx dammah into the Ouadi-Rimé Ouadi-Achim Faunal Reserve in the African nation of Chad, reports New Scientist. They will join the 25 oryx released into the grasslands in August, boosting the population of an animal that went extinct in the wild in the 1980s.
They’re back. Scimitar-horned oryx have been reintroduced to the wild after a two-decade absence and are flourishing in their old stomping grounds.The desert antelopes were once widespread across northern Africa, but were hunted to extinction in their natural habitat in the 1990s. (…)
A yearlong conservation effort focused on saving the cheetah from extinction will be launched Saturday at The Living Desert with daytime and evening events. “The Year of the Cheetah” launch party begins at 10 a.m. at the recently remodeled cheetah exhibit, new Cheetah Conservation Outpost and throughout the park. (…)
September 20, 2016. The addax could be mistaken for a ghostly mirage in the Sahara Desert. But this antelope is perfectly adapted to survive harsh conditions there. Now, it’s on the verge of extinction thanks to poaching and habitat loss.
August 30, 2016. The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction in the wilds of Chad thanks to the late Sheikh Zayed and the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency.
When the last scimitar-horned oryx disappeared from the grasslands of Chad, the loss was profound, akin to America losing its buffalo or Australia its kangaroo. But now, after 30 years of dedicated work by conservationists, the iconic animal is heading back into the wild once again. (…)
