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Re-introducing captive-bred Arabian oryx Oryx
leucoryx, Nubian ibex Capra nubiana, and goitered gazelle Gazella
subguttarosa marica, in Since 1979, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been breeding blue-necked ostriches, Persian onagers, Arabian oryxes, Nubian ibexes and sand (goitered) gazelles for release into the wild.
Click on the photographs to enlarge them. Dr. Harding's project (see Middle East) was successful with a $161 million award to Jordan in 2005 for rangelands rehabilitation and a renewed captive breeding program. More information is at http://www2.unog.ch/uncc/. A research paper on the Arabian oryx reintroduction programme in Jordan, with Dr. Harding as the senior author, has been published in Oryx, a scientific journal:
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