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[[File:Reem-Lavan001.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Arabian oryx at Chay Bar Yotvata,
The [[Arabian oryx]] (''Oryx leucoryx''), also called the white oryx, was [[extinct in the wild]] as of 1972,<ref name="arabian/oryx/oman"/> but was [[Species reintroduction|reintroduced to the wild]] starting in 1982.<ref name="yalooni/transfer"/> The initial reintroduction was primarily from two herds: the "World Herd" originally started at the [[Phoenix Zoo]] in 1963 from only nine oryx<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oryxoman.com |title=The Arabian Oryx Project (Sultanate of Oman) Web site |access-date=2009-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315062910/http://www.oryxoman.com/ |archive-date=2010-03-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Saudi Arabian herd started in 1986 from private collections and some "World Herd" stock by the Saudi National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arabian-oryx.gov.sa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904061937/http://www.arabian-oryx.gov.sa/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-09-04 |title=Saudi Arabian "conservation programme for Arabian oryx" Web site |access-date=2009-09-25 }}</ref> As of 2009, there have been reintroductions in [[Oman]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Israel]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], and [[Jordan]], and as of 2013 the [[IUCN Red List]] classifies the species as [[Vulnerable species|vulnerable]].<ref name="redlist/oryx/details">{{cite web |last=IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group |date=2017 |title=Oryx leucoryx |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15569/50191626 |access-date= |website=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017}}</ref>
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