Tags: World Heritage Site.
The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary is an animal sanctuary in the Omani Central Desert and Coastal Hills. Within its boundaries are found rare fauna including a free-ranging herd of Arabian oryx the first since the species’ extinction in the wild in 1972 and subsequent reintroduction in 1982 at this site.The endangered Houbara Bustard a species of wader breeds in the wild only at sites in the sanctuary.