Now, the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic, which manages the studbook for the species, wants to begin returning them to the Altyn Dala, or Golden Steppe, region of central Kazakhstan, a vast area ...

CNN Saving saiga in Kazakhstan’s ‘Golden Steppe’ Posted: April 17, 2025 | Last updated: April 23, 2025 Saiga antelope once roamed alongside woolly mammoths – and they, too, nearly ...

These endangered Przewalski's horses are part of an effort to return the species to the Central Asian plains they once roamed. For the first time in at least 200 years, wild Przewalski's horses ...

For those who like their solitude, there are few places quite as expansive and lonesome as the steppes of Kazakhstan ... tumble across the steppe. On one side, shafts of golden sunlight shoot ...

The newest equine additions to Kazakhstan’s “Golden Steppe” might seem, at first glance, to be unremarkable, with a donkeylike build and a mane that sticks straight up like a zebra’s.

To visit Kazakh shepherds in the winter season, I first have to reach Qonaev, a small city in southeastern Kazakhstan, before beginning a long and arduous drive across the steppe. It's best to ...

Now, the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic, which manages the studbook for the species, wants to begin returning them to the Altyn Dala, or Golden Steppe, region of central Kazakhstan, a vast area ...

For the first time in at least 200 years, wild Przewalski's horses have returned to Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe. These are the last truly wild horses left on Earth whose habitats were wiped out by ...

Now, the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic, which manages the studbook for the species, wants to begin returning them to the Altyn Dala, or Golden Steppe, region of central Kazakhstan, a vast area of ...

World's last wild horses return home to Kazakhstan's Golden Steppe after 200 years Przewalski's horses had disappeared from the wild by the end of the 1960s, but remained in captivity.