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On 20 August 2005, Rolex Laureate Claudia Feh will accompany
a second shipment of Przewalski horses to Mongolia in her project
to help reintroduce the world’s last truly wild horse
to its native habitat.
Feh will accompany the herd of 12 horses on their 13-hour flight
from Nîmes in southern France to Khovd in Mongolia. On
arrival, the horses will be transferred to another plane for
the short flight to a location near their final destination,
Khomiin Tal. |
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A Swiss-born behavioural ecologist, Feh has been raising a natural
herd of Przewalski horses for over 10 years in France’s
remote Causse Méjan, a region selected for its similarity
to the Mongolian steppe. Once native to Mongolia, Przewalski
horses were last seen living in the wild there in the 1970s.
Feh’s herd, which numbers almost 60 in total, is descended
from 11 animals obtained from European zoos in the early 1990s. |
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In September 2004, Feh accompanied her first shipment of 12
horses by plane from France to Mongolia. The animals took about
10 days to recover from their 48-hour journey. Today all 12
are in good health, with not a single death in the past year:
a highly unusual result for a reintroduction programme. |
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Feh has chosen the Przewalski horse as the flagship species
for a conservation project based in a village at Khomiin Tan.
Known as the “Wild Horse Mesh”, her initiative will
provide local nomads and international scientists with opportunities
to share knowledge and practical experience.
The inaugural forum – which is funded by Feh’s 2004
Rolex Award and is to become an annual event – will open
on 2 September 2005 and last until the end of the month. The
theme of the initial forum will be biodiversity.
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