‘Conservation Success’: Once ‘Extinct’ Scimitar-Horned Oryx Returned to the Wild in N. Africa

(EnviroNews World News) — Gone but not forgotten, and now returned to the wild. Five thousand years ago, as many as one million scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) grazed the steppes and subdeserts of North Africa. The white-bodied antelopes with russet necks are well adapted to this hot, arid…