A team of environmentalists and zoologists affiliated with several institutions in Indonesia has confirmed that a tiger species once thought extinct is still living on the island of Java.

One of the zoo’s most notable successes has been its conservation work with the scimitar-horned oryx, a species once declared extinct in the wild in 2000 due to habitat destruction and excessive ...

Sameer Ghani, an independent conservation specialist, said the reserve's Arabian Oryx breeding programme was showing "great results" after the animal "went extinct in the wild in the early 1970s".