{"id":690693,"date":"2026-07-14T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690693\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:05:13","slug":"in-pictures-3000-mile-journey-to-save-rare-przewalskis-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690693\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: 3,000-mile journey to save rare Przewalski&#8217;s horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two horses have been transported 3,000 miles (5,000km) to help secure the future of a species that was once considered to be extinct in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shara and Togs, two female Przewalski&#8217;s horses, were born and raised at Marwell Zoo near Winchester, Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were flown to be released in Kazakhstan, to help continue a species revival led by European zoos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once found across central Asia, the species was last seen in the wild in the 1960s and was reduced to a dozen or so breeding individuals in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It remains endangered, with 178 mature horses in 2014, according to the most recent assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Goodwin, Marwell Zoo&#8217;s animal operations manager, said: &#8220;We are proud to have played our part in bringing these incredibly special horses back to the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were one of the very first species at the zoo when it opened in 1972, so we have been working with them for more than 50 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two horses have been transported 3,000 miles (5,000km) to help secure the future of a species that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-690693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}