Resumen de Back from the brink
Sahara oryx are about to get a first-class ticket back to their natural mode of existence. Come March, the first 25 of a planned 500 animals will be flown from enclosures in Abu Dhabi to be released into their native habitat in Chad. It's an example of an endangered animal making a recovery--and it's not the only one. Estimates suggest that up to 100,000 species are lost each year. That rate is thought to be at least 1,000 times what it would be in the absence of the deforestation, poaching and pollution humans are responsible for. But despite this gloomy outlook, prospects are improving for some species that have narrowly escaped extinction. That's partly thanks to ongoing success in breeding species that are extinct in the wild, and reintroducing them.
