Herd of Przewalski’s horses returned to natural range
Twenty-one highly-endangered Przewalski’s horses accept been returned to the wild inward a nature reserve inward China.
The horses were released into the National Nature Reserve inward Dunhuang inward northwest China’s Gansu say on Thursday, China Daily reported.
Their unloose follows a successful case that turned 7 horses loose inward the same expanse inward 2010.
“So far, everything goes well. All the horses accept adapted to their novel domicile in addition to none accept wellness problems,” Lord's Day Zhicheng, an official from the nature reserve, told the newspaper.
The horses had travelled good during a 10-hour route journeying to the reserve in addition to were thoroughly checked earlier release.
The Przewalski’s Equus caballus is considered the solely remaining species of wild horse.
It was i time mutual inward Eurasia but hunting in addition to habitat devastation led to their extinction inward the wild.
However, a zoo breeding plan has maintained the breed in addition to to a greater extent than than grand Przewalski’s horses at i time live on inward zoos only about the world.
In the 1980s, a plan began to render a let on of the horses to their natural habitat.
The let on of Przewalski horses inward the National Nature Reserve has grown from xviii inward the 1980s to 75.
Zhao Chongxue, deputy manager of the center, said i occupation organization inward the reserve was maintaining H2O supplies, which had been affected yesteryear exploitation of groundwater.
Park staff had dug 10 novel springs this twelvemonth to aid the horses, in addition to personnel suspension H2O ice inward wintertime to ensure their H2O supply.
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