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Is it possible to restore the wild ass to the central steppes of Kazakhstan?

Published on: 16. April 2020
Author: Anne Olga Syverhuset

In a world where wild spaces are becoming fewer the central steppes of Kazakhstan uniquely contain hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of grasslands which represent an amazing opportunity for wildlife conservation. However, several of the

Is it possible to restore the wild ass to the central steppes of Kazakhstan?

Asiatic wild asses, or kulan, where once widespread across Asia - from the Mediterranean to Mongolia - playing the same role in Asian ecosystems that zebras do in Africa. Nowadays, kulan only occupy 3% of this former distribution. Although the po

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