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Wild Przewalski’s horses return to Kazakhstan after 200 years

Przewalski's horses trot on a meadow at the acclimatisation enclosure, in the village of Dolni Dobrejov, Czech Republic [File: David W Cerny/Reuters]

Przewalski’s horses have returned to the steppes of Kazakhstan after nearly 200 years, part of an ambitious scheme to reintroduce the world’s last wild horses to their original habitats.

The endangered sandy brown horses once roamed across Central Asia. They were named after Russian geographer Nikolay Przewalski, who discovered them in the late 19th century, by which time their range had been reduced to only one part of western Mongolia.

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