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    reintroduction was primarily from two herds: the "World Herd" originally started at the Phoenix Zoo in 1963 from only nine oryx and the Saudi Arabian...
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    the smallest member of the genus Oryx, native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early...
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    Arabian Peninsula. It was reintroduced in 1982 in Oman, but poaching has reduced its numbers there. One of the largest populations of Arabian oryxes exists...
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    The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) is the smallest leopard subspecies. It was described in 1830 and is native to the Arabian Peninsula, where it...
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    The scimitar oryx (Oryx dammah), also known as the scimitar-horned oryx and the Sahara oryx, is an Oryx species that was once widespread across North Africa...
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    subspecies of the ostrich that lived on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Near East until the mid-20th century. The Arabian ostrich's range seems to have been continuous...
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    The Wildlife Reserve in Al Wusta, formerly the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, is a nature reserve in the Omani Central Desert and Coastal Hills. In a much larger...
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  • herds. The reintroduction process faced many challenges and setbacks due to poachers and an oil pipeline being built on Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in...
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    Arabian Oryx, as Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan confirmed that the reintroduction of the Arabian Oryx led to a change in its status in 2011 in the IUCN Red List...
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    translocation, considering it, in addition, an "introduction" rather than a "reintroduction." In January 2020, the court reversed its 2012 decision, and allowed...
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    National Park of Madhya Pradesh, India Arabian gazelle in Saudi Arabia Arabian sand gazelle in Saudi Arabia Arabian oryx in the Sultanate of Oman (successful)...
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    fruit basket of Saudi Arabia. Protected areas in Oman include the controversial Arabian Oryx Sanctuary where the reintroduction took place, and Jabal...
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    'Uruq Bani Ma'arid (category Protected areas of Saudi Arabia)
    in which the Arabian oryx used to live before it became extinct in the wild. The reserve has been chosen for the reintroduction of oryx that have been...
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  • practice of captive breeding and species reintroduction. In response to the extinction of the Arabian oryx, Operation Oryx in collaboration with Phoenix Zoo...
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    reintroduction to the Negev desert. The Asian wild ass has already been reintroduced in the Makhtesh Ramon area of the wild, while the Arabian oryx has...
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    the last few Arabian oryx, which formed the basis of the world herd created for Operation Oryx and eventually allowed the reintroduction of the species...
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    this region. More recently, in the twentieth century, the Arabian leopard and Arabian oryx became locally extinct through hunting, and several species...
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  • a host species are captured for the purpose of captive breeding and reintroduction programs, they typically undergo anti-parasitic treatments to increase...
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  • after reconstruction, it was removed from the endangered list. The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, originally listed for its natural significance in 1994, was...
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  • undertaken a successful captive breeding program and reintroduction efforts to reintroduce the Arabian oryx back into the wild, with the population now standing...
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    Nubian ibex (category Mammals of the Arabian Peninsula)
    numerous other herbivores, including rock hyrax (Procavia capensis), Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx), gazelles (Genus gazella), and Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus)...
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    participated in species reintroduction programs including the peninsular bighorn sheep to the local mountains and returning Arabian oryx to Oman. The gardens...
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    These programs, such as the Arabian Oryx breeding program from the Phoenix Zoo in 1962, were aimed at the reintroduction of these species into the wild...
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    Blanford's fox and Arabian wildcat. The central section of Oman has vast stretches of gravelly desert with very little vegetation. The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary was...
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    A long-term systematic approach to planning reintroductions: the Persian fallow deer and the Arabian oryx in Israel. Animal Conservation, 1:245-252. Wikimedia...
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    resembles the scimitar oryx, but can be distinguished by its horns and facial markings. While the addax is spiral-horned, the scimitar oryx has decurved 127 cm...
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  • marine Species reintroduction By taxon Arthropod Bird Hawaiian honeycreeper Raptor Golden eagle Fungi Land mammal American bison Arabian oryx Bear Polar bear...
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    population was released into woodland by Canterbury in Kent to trial their reintroduction into the UK. In May 2024, a small population was released in central...
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    Wolf reintroduction involves the reintroduction of a portion of grey wolves in areas where native wolves have been extirpated. More than 30 subspecies...
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  • tigers Panthera tigris amoyensis: field survey of priority tiger reserves". Oryx. 38 (1): 40–47. doi:10.1017/S0030605304000079. Nyhus, P. (2008). "Panthera...
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