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A The reintroduction of Przewalski's horse foal was born on August 22 in to the Golden Steppe area of Kazakh steppes has reached a new milestone with the Altyn Dala reserve birth of two foals in central Kazakhstan. This event marks late August. These births mark the first birth of time the species has been born in the this region in approximately 200 years. The foal is the offspring of first foal, a male, was born on August 22 to a seven-year-old mare named Tessa from Tierpark Berlin and Tessa. A second male foal was born on August 31 to a stallion mare named Zorro from Prague Zoo, both Umbra. Both foals are the offspring of whom were moved to Kazakhstan in June 2024. the stallion Zorro, who has since passed away. The foal is currently being monitored in an acclimatization enclosure births took place at the Alibi reintroduction center and is reported Wild Ungulates Reintroduction Center within the Altyn Dala State Nature Reserve. Conservationists view these events as evidence of the species' successful adaptation to be healthy. The birth is a major milestone for a reintroduction initiative involving the Prague Zoo local climate and territory. Alyona Krivosheyeva, conservation director of the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK). The project seeks (ACBK), stated that the births prove the horses are successfully adapting to restore a viable population of the endangered local climate and territory. This initiative, involving the Prague Zoo and ACBK, aims to restore Equus ferus przewalskii to przewalskii—the world's last truly wild equid species—to its ancestral habitats in the Kazakh steppes after the habitats. The species disappeared from was previously declared extinct in the wild due to hunting and hunting, habitat loss. loss, and competition with domestic livestock, surviving only in captivity with low genetic diversity.