Przewalski's horse

The last wild Przewalski's horse was seen in 1969 in Mongolia's Dzungarian Gobi, and for two decades the only ones left lived in zoos and reserves. Zoo-bred horses went back to China from 1985 and to Mongolia in the early 1990s, and by 2011 the Red List had moved the species from Extinct in the Wild to Endangered. About 1,200 now live in the wild and semi-wild in Mongolia, China and Russia, backed by roughly 640 in managed care. The newest chapter is Kazakhstan, where the horse is still extinct: in June 2024 four horses from Tierpark Berlin made the roughly 2,500-mile trip to the Altyn Dala steppe, the start of a plan to bring at least 40 over five years.