Mongolian wild horses, a conservation success story.

[Catherine]

Mongolian wild horses are known globally as Przewalskii's horses. In Mongolia they are known as Takhis. After the outside world discovered them in 1878, there was a real  push to collect them. By 1969 they were declared extinct in the wild. There were some of the horses living in captivity. Much work has been done to increase their numbers and actually return them to Mongolia. There are now 2000 of them in the wild and 800 of those horses live wild in Mongolia.

https://eurasianet.org/mongolia-endanger...-the-brink

We may have driven them to extinction, but we have tried to make it right by bringing them back. We didn't just increase their numbers, we have returned them to their natural habitat. There is a small herd of Takhis at the Toronto Zoo. They are beautiful and it would have been a terrible loss if they were gone forever.
Hopefully their numbers can continue to grow in the wild. No doubt they are essential to their native habitat.