ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 7月11日 11時34分

Photo by @FransLanting "Wild Once More” In an era of extinctions it is empowering to focus attention on success stories that show we can turn the tide. I went to Mongolia to document the miraculous revival of an animal that had vanished from the wild. The fabled Przewalski’s horse was once common across Eurasia, as Ice Age cave paintings testify, but when humans spread, they dwindled. The last wild one was seen in Mongolia in the 1960’s, where it is known as “Takhi”. But a handful of takhis survived in zoos. From that source, Dutch conservationists nurtured a new population in captivity. In a unique airlift, family groups of takhis were transported by cargo plane from the Netherlands to Mongolia, where I joined trucks loaded with groggy horses in crates destined for a national park.

When the crates were opened the horses bolted out. They bonded instantly as they took off. I could only expose a few frames before they were out of reach. Yet one of them worked. It celebrates the vitality of an animal wild once more, but it also recalls the images of their ancestors painted many thousands of years ago by anonymous artists on cave walls. Follow me @FransLanting for more images of wild horses.

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