20,000 years ago, stone-age humans engraved depictions of wild horses onto cave walls.
Today, only one species of wild horse remains.
Known as the Przewalski’s horse, the short, stocky, zebra-like animal once roamed throughout Europe and Asia.
In 1969, a Mongolian scientist made what some thought would be the last ever sighting of a Przewalski’s horse in the wild.
However, over the past 40 years, the breeding of captive populations and reintroductions in Europe and Asia have brought the Przewalski’s horse back from the brink.
Persons:
Nikolai Przewalski
Organizations:
CNN, Initiative, Prague Zoo
Locations:
Europe, Asia, Russian, Russia, Central Asia, Prague, Mongolian, Kazakhstan