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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Richard Luscombe

‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans

a wild horse in an open field
A wild horse in Theodore Roosevelt national park in North Dakota in 2014. Photograph: Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Wildlife advocates are celebrating “incredible” news for the preservation of threatened bears, and a herd of historically significant wild horses, in separate north-western and upper midwestern national parks.

In North Dakota, the National Parks Service (NPS) has dropped a plan that would have seen about 200 wild horses, descended from those belonging to Native American tribes who fought the 1876 Great Sioux war, rounded up and removed from Theodore Roosevelt national park.

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