Animal Reintroductions: The Arabian Oryx in Oman

by Mark Price

When this book was first published in 1989, attempts to reintroduce plants or animals into their native habitat were still relatively rare, and those that were adequately planned, designed, funded and monitored over the course of years are even scarcer. The oryx story is an exception to this, and has the added interest that it represents the first attempt to re-establish a wild population of a species when there were no others left outside captivity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521131677
• ISBN13: 9780521131674
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"