ALTYN DALA, Kazakhstan: Przewalski’s animals have returned to the plains of Kazakhstan after almost 200 times, part of an ambitious plan to restore the country’s last wild animals to their authentic habitats.
Central Asia again had sandy brown animals that were endangered. They were given the name Nikolai Przewalski, a Russian geologist, who found them in the late 19th century, by which occasion their spectrum had been reduced to just one region of western Mongolia.
Today, the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic, which manages the studbook for the types, wants to start returning them to the Altyn Dala, or Golden Steppe, region of central Kazakhstan, a large area of farmland and lakes covering some 7, 000 square miles.
In earlier June, the second group of seven arrived. For the next five years, there are approximately 40 more planned.
” These are the first wild animals to have touched land in the plains of northern Kazakhstan in hundreds of years,” said Miroslav Bobek, director of the Prague Zoo.
” We also have a long way to get, but this was a traditional time”.