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Back from the brink

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Conservation work at Monarto Safari Park has helped bring the scimitar-horned oryx back from the brink of extinction.

The native African animal was declared extinct in the wild in 2000, leading to a global conservation effort to save it, including at Monarto.

In 2016 oryx populations were reintroduced into the wild in what has been described as “one of the greatest animal comeback stories in m...


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