Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and sand gazelle (Gazella subguttarosa)

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Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and sand gazelle (Gazella subguttarosa)

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Re-introducing captive-bred Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx, Nubian ibex Capra nubiana, and goitered gazelle Gazella subguttarosa marica,  in Jordan.

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.

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Arabian oryx Persian onager Nubian ibex Blue-necked ostrich Goitered gazelle

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Click here for a manuscript that summarizes these programmes.

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:

Lee E. Harding, Omar F. Abu-Eid, Nashat Hamidan and Ahmad al Sha'lan 2007. Reintroduction of the Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx in Jordan: war and redemption. Oryx 41:3: 478-487.