Mongolian Przewalski horses come back from extinction

"For over 160,000 years, wild horses have roamed freely over the Central Asian steppe. Less than a century after they were encountered by Russian and European explorers, the horses, called takhi in Mongolian, were nearly extinct. In 1969, three years after the last reported sighting of a live takhi, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the species extinct in the wild. 

A Przewalski horse in Mongolia

But thanks to the persistent conservation efforts of several decades, including ongoing education and rewilding programs, hundreds of takhi now roam freely in Mongolia’s Hustai National Park, just sixty miles outside of Ulaanbaatar, thumbing their hooves in defiance of their evolutionary odds."


https://daily.jstor.org/restoring-prehistoric-horses/