Environment Agency Abu Dhabi

[2] The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) is chaired by Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak is the managing director and board member.

In 2000, the Scimitar-horned oryx was officially declared extinct in the wild by the IUCN Red List.

[4] Beginning in 2016, efforts by the EAD together with the Sahara Conservation Fund, Zoological Society of London, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, and the Government of Chad have successfully released 200 oryx that were bred in Abu Dhabi into the wild in Chad.

[5] In 2017, the reintroduction effort reported a number of successes including the first calves born in the wild in decades.

A Scimitar horned oryx was released into the wild in Chad . Pictured here is one of the first calves born in the wild after almost two decades.