China's endangered animal Platts mustang protection work has entered a new stage

News Agency, Urumqi, May 31 (Reporters Xiong Congru, Zhang Xiaocheng) early summer season, China's northwest Junzhuer Basin gradually by the grass and trees dyed green. Five hairy, creamy Platts mustangs stumbled and stood up half an hour after birth, their eyes like black gems, adding vitality to the Kalamali Nature Reserve.
these ponies have further expanded the population of the endangered species Platts mustangs in our country.
Platts mustang is the only living wild horse on Earth, a living fossil with 60 million years of evolutionary history, and there are only more than 2,000 in the world, fewer than giant pandas.
The Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding Research Center, located on the southern edge of the Karamari Nature Reserve, is responsible for the introduction, breeding and research of wild horses, where five ponies lived shortly after birth.Ma Xinping, director of the
Research Center, said that expanding the population and releasing it into the wild was the initial goal of wild horse conservation, where the wild horse population increased from the initial 11 to more than 400, and 16 batches and 110 wild horses were released into nature, learning to forage in the wild, enemy defense and natural division, and the research center also established a wild horse genealogy file in accordance with international standards.
international cooperation has become a new topic in Platts Mustang conservation. In order to avoid inbreeding, Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding Research Center is actively working with Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Czech Republic and other countries and international wild horse protection organizations to promote the settlement of foreign breeding horses in China, "international marriage" way to achieve species exchange, gene exchange, improve genetic diversity.
the problem of in recent decline through wild horse artificial insemination technology, and is entering the field of vision of wild horse protectors in China. The U.S. National Zoo has studied the successful Platts Mustang artificial insemination technology, which allows mares to conceive through a series of methods such as artificial collection of semen, ultra-low temperature storage transportation, and artificial insemination, saving the high cost and risk of breeding horses. Currently, the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding Research Center and Beijing Forestry University are working with the U.S. National Zoo to use this technology to promote wild horse conservation worldwide.
Ma Xinping said that in the future, Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding Research Center will also, with the support of relevant departments and research institutions, try to establish a desert grassland belt endangered species species protection center and scientific research center, so that more rare species are protected, and promote China's wildlife protection work to make another breakthrough.
because of hunting and environmental problems, Platts mustangs disappeared in the native Jorgen basin. After reintroduce from Europe and more than 30 years of active protection, the Platts Mustangs in Karamari, Xinjiang, and Wuwei, Gansu Province, have recovered to more than 500, accounting for about a quarter of the global wild horses.
1986, the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding Research Center has an existing wild horse population of about 80% of the total number of wild horses in the country, and is the largest wild horse breeding and conservation base in Asia.