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“The historical distribution of the scimitar-horned oryx included all of Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa between the Atlantic and the Nile. The range regressed continuously since antiquity, and is now thought to be restricted to two fragments in Niger and Chad. Extinction in most of the former range states is due to habitat degradation, droughts, and human pressure by pastoralism and hunting. Reports on some surviving animals (in particular Chad) could not be confirmed, and no definite evidence of its survival in the wild was obtained during the compilation of information from its range states for the "CMS Workshop on the Conservation and Restoration of Sahelo-Saharan Antelopes held at Djerba, Tunisia in February 1998" (Devillers & Devillers-Terschuren 1998). Its Red List status was therefore changed to "Extinct in the Wild" (EW) (Hilton-Taylor 2000). The species was reintroduced in Tunisia, and several further reintroduction sites have been identified within various range states (Devillers & Devillers-Terschuren 1999).”
Riede, K. (2001): Global Register of Migratory Species. Weltregister wandernder Tierarten. Münster (Landwirtschaftsverlag), p. 183

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