TUCSON (KVOA) – The Phoenix Zoo is pleased to announce the birth of two female Arabian oryx calves, both of which were born at the zoo on Feb. 13.

The Arabian oryx was classed as extinct in the wild but now thriving herds can be found throughout the Kingdom. Ahmed Boug of Saudi Arabia’s National Centre for Wildlife, explains what’s next ...

Lehigh County; Scimitar-horned oryx are extinct in the wild, but one was just born at Lehigh Valley Zoo. Published: ; Nov. 25, 2022, 4:42 p.m.

The scimitar-horned oryx was deemed extinct in the wild until the St. Louis Zoo and others led an effort to send oryxes in zoos to Africa.

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Several species, once on the brink of extinction, are making remarkable comebacks due to dedicated conservation efforts.

The scimitar-horned oryx was declared extinct in the wild in its native country of North Africa, but it flourishes in south Texas (there are more than 10,000 of them in the Lone Star State). Animals ...

A kind of antelope which had become extinct in the wild, has now been downgraded to Endangered, as a result of a successful breeding programme. Scimitar-horned oryx were able to be reintroduced in ...

A scimitar-horned oryx calf named Eclipse was born at the Lehigh Valley Zoo in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania in November. The antelope species was declared extinct in the wild in 2000 and has been ...

But reintroducing species into the wild is not without its challenges. One oryx in the Zoo’s breeding program, Jenna, became pregnant in 2017 and the staff was optimistic that a brighter future for ...

Existing only in human care for the past 30 years, the oryx was driven to extinction in the wild by over-hunting and scarce resources. In 2012, several organizations, including the Smithsonian’s ...