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Bringing 'Asia's zebras' back to the steppe
By Abdujalil Abdurasulov
BBC News, Altyn Emel, Kazakhstan
25 December 2018
PETRA KACZENSKY/NINA
"Do you see them?" the radio crackled in the old Russian 4x4.
The driver tried to steer away from pits and ravines that he could barely see in the dark. The lights of another car flashed in the distance. After a prolonged silence came the answer. "No."
The two drivers navigating around a national park in the dead of the night are Kazakh rangers trying to capture Asiatic wild ass, known locally as kulans.
It is a part of the operation to reintroduce these animals to the steppes of central Kazakhstan, where they disappeared a century ago.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46438380
