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Three Przewalski horses galloped off for the first time into the Kazakh steppe — the native habitat of this endangered species
A lot of work has been carried out in recent months in order for the Przewalski horses to come to Kazakhstan
The project run by the Prague and Berlin zoo is aimed at preserving this species
There are now 2,000 Przewalski horses around the world, mainly in China and Mongolia but also in France, Russia and even living in the wild in the Chernobyl exclusion zone between Belarus and Ukraine.
Kazakh steppes
The Kazakh Steppe, also called the Great Dala, is a vast region of open grassland in Central Asia, covering areas in northern Kazakhstan and adjacent areas of Russia.
It lies east of the Pontic–Caspian steppe and west of the Emin Valley steppe, with which it forms the central and western part of the Eurasian steppe.
The Kazakh Steppe is an ecoregion of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome in the Palearctic realm
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.
It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres , with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state.
Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea, and much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south.
Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country's population.
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