By Ashoka Mukpo The government of Chad has signed a 10-year deal with the U.S.-based NGO Sahara Conservation to manage the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve (OROAFR), the group announced July 11.

Such is the case for the scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), a large antelope once native to dry environments of North Africa. In 2000, oryx became extinct in the wild, ...

The scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) was once widespread across the southern Sahara, but was driven to extinction during a period of extended civil unrest throughout the region in the 1980s and ...

Thanks to some leading and intensive efforts in Israel, and with international cooperation, the endangered scimitar-horned oryx is returning to Senegal, Africa, reports the latest edition of <i ...

Scimitar-Horned Oryx (Oryx dammah) Named for its long, curving horns, the scimitar-horned oryx stands about 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall. Its horns may add another .9 meters (3 feet) of height to its ...

‘The return of this species [Scimitar-horned Oryx] is very important to Senegal. We see this as a major success in helping to preserve the country’s fragile biodiversity’ ... (Erythrocebus patas), and ...

The scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), the dama gazelle (Gazella dama), and the addax antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) - affectionately known as the “Three Amigos” - were exempted from 2005 ...

The scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) is now extinct in the wild, while numbers of the goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) are also in sharp decline, despite it once being the most widespread ...

The Los Angeles Zoo was also involved in the oryx breeding program, sending four to Oman, eight to Israel and several dozen to U.S. zoos. The zoo has not had any oryx in its own collection since 2006.

On June 3, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held in Friends of Animals v.Jewell (No. 1:14-cv-00357) that Plaintiff Friends of Animals (“Plaintiff”) had Article III standing ...

It’s an old biblical tenet enacted by the Jewish forefather Noah: Go forth and multiply. In modern Israel, sadly, much of the country’s impressive wildlife that once roamed the region, including the ...

Goats and Gazelles and Oryx, Oh My! How Wildlife Veterinarians Treat (Almost) All Species Jennifer Yu Collectively, veterinarians are trained to work with a variety of species. There are equine ...