Return of the Wild horses 2016 –Unique Redoubled Transport for the First
Since 2011, Prague Zoo has already carried out five transports of Przewalski horses to western Mongolia from the Czech Republic, in cooperation with the Czech Army. During them, eighteen mares ad one stallion have been transported at a distance of nearly 6000 kilometres, and they have so far become the parents of 15 offspring. The Prague Zoo thus plays a key role in the return of the last wild horse into its home. This year, another transport will take place, this time a redoubled one. In addition to four horses from Prague, the plan also includes a transport of four “Przewalskians” from Khustain Nuuru National Park near Ulaanbaatar to Takhin Tal in Western Mongolia.
Photo: Václav Šilha, Prague Zoo
The CASA aeroplane will take off from the 24th base of the transport air force in Prague-Kbely on Saturday July 16 at 2:00 p.m. and after two intermediate landings in Kazan and Novosibirsk, it is expected to land on the unpaved area of Bulgan Sum airport on Sunday July 17 at 1:35 local time, that is at 7:35 Central European Time. The horses in transport cases will then be loaded on trucks and transported to the Takhin Tal area in the Gobi B Strictly Protected Area. Here they will subsequently be let out into the acclimatisation enclosure.
Up to here, the plan of transport is the same as in the previous years. This year, though, the CASA will take off from Bulgan Sum on Wednesday July 20 at 9 o’clock local time to fly to Ulaanbaatar, where four horses are to be loaded into the aircraft from Khustain Nuuru National Park are to be loaded into the aircraft and transported to Takhin Tal in Gobi B.
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