When I lived in Arabia, I heard an extraordinary account of what happened with the first attempt to reintroduce the Oryx back into the wild.
By 1970 the Oryx had been hunted to extinction. They used to roam across the entire Arabian peninsula but from the 1930s on the population declined rapidly.
Great efforts have been made, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to reintroduce the Oryx into the wild and there are now about 1,220 Oryx in the wild.1