Przewalski’s horses to return to native western China
An international team is preparing to release captive-bred Przewalski’s horses back to their native habitat in western China.
Specialists from the US, Germany and the Netherlands are involved in the release of the horses back into the wild where they finally disappeared due to poaching in 1986.
The Przewalski’s horse is the oldest existing horse breed. Only 1,000 now exist across the world.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.