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Abu Dhabi Translocates These Rare Animals to Chad

  • Publish date: Monday، 23 May 2022
Abu Dhabi Translocates These Rare Animals to Chad

The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has translocated 20 Scimitar-Horned Oryx (SHO) and 25 Addax to Chad’s Ouadi Rime-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve during last March.

The numbers of Scimitar-Horned Oryx in the wild reached 460, with 15 calves born so far this year, as well as 96 wild Addax, with five calves born to the herd, also this year.

Abu Dhabi Translocates These Rare Animals to Chad

EAD has also translocated five Dama Gazelle on 14th March, 2022, which have joined the herd of other captured wild Dama Gazelle in the Agency programme.

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EAD darted seven wild animals - six SHO and one Addax - and fitted them with satellite tracking collars, enabling close monitoring to witness survival and reproduction.

Abu Dhabi Translocates These Rare Animals to Chad

The SHO reintroduction programmes strives to create a self-sustaining herd of over 500 heads in the 77,950 square kilometres Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Wildlife Reserve, decades after the species was declared 'extinct in the wild' by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2000.

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