After a deft restoration program lasting for at least 200 years, wild animals have finally made their way back to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan.
The Prague Zoo conducted two businesses in early June that spanned eight hours of airlifting seven Przewalski’s animals from Europe to the Northern Asian nation.
The horses so far are doing well, roaming around the prairies of their new surroundings, caregivers told the BBC. Their returning to their ancient land last week is a defeat of decades of restoration work, the park’s director, Miroslav Bobek, said.
“]The horse named ] Tessa was the first to move out of the transfer box into the ink, next Wespe, followed by Umbra, and Sary brought the musician to a close”, he added.
The Przewalski’s animal is the final wild animal species to have been discovered in Europe. Its name was given to Russian explorer Nikolai Przewalski, who was the first to recognize the horse for the scientific area.
In the 19th and 20th generations, experts transported the breed, which was bred in the plains of Central Asia, to Europe and North America, where it grew larger groups.
Some of them ended up in parks in Munich and Prague; their ancestors have since been reintroduced into Kazakhstan.
At least 2, 000 years prior to the earliest records of cultivated horses in Europe, cultural artefacts reveal that people in the area rode and consumed the animals for food in the area.
But by the day Przewalski, a geologist, discovered them, the wild communities in Asia were now dying away. Just a small portion of western Mongolia was where they were discovered.
The seven animals that we brought here by two Bohemian Army flights are the first of their kind to exist in northern Kazakhstan in hundreds of years, according to Mr. Bobek.
After World War Two, the Prague Zoo was at the forefront of international efforts to save the animals when they were given the task of the breed’s “international studship.”
Przewalski’s horses are long regarded as the only real wild horse left today. Other species like the National mustang and the American brumby are wild horses descended from domesticated animals.
Their genetic variations demonstrate that neither species have ancestry, and they are shorter and stockier than current cultivated horses.
The animals have been in the ideas since 2022, according to Prague Zoo, which has spent the past ten and a half bringing them back to Central Asia, primarily in Mongolia.
The culmination of years of labor occurred last month. The six mares and one horse were brought up in Tierpark Berlin’s aquarium for a few months to get acquainted before their trip. They were chosen from various European television programs.
On a 6, 000 km-long road that included stops in Turkey and Azerbaijan, military aircraft flew the standing animals in two teams in early June.
After arriving at the Kazakhstani airport’s Arkalyk Airport, they were taken on an eight-hour drive to the prairies, where they were eventually released after being released onto the Altyn Dala, the Golden Steppe’s title in Kazakh.
” Our purpose is to gently move at least 40 people here, so that a viable people can be established,” Mr. Bobek said.
To maintain genetic diversity, the mares were released in a different pasture than the first team that contained the stallion.
” Hopefully, in the future, they may form a palace with another horse so that there will be more mares breeding right from the start”, Mr Bobek said.
He continued,” Almost anything could be a better illustration of the purpose of current animals than the transfer of the Wild Animals,” noting that it had always been the park’s desire to release the horses up into their native land.