摘要
2003年9月18日。远赴新疆采访的中华环保世纪行采访团的车队穿越茫茫的戈壁荒滩。赶往位于乌鲁木齐东北150千米处的新疆野马繁殖研究中心(以下简称野马中心)，探访18年前从海外归来的普氏野马。我作为采访团成员之一。与中央电视台、新华社．人民日报等二十余家新闻单位的记者们一起参加了这次采访活动。
Przewalaski's Horse, this stocky, pony-like animal, named for the Russian naturalist who discovered it in 1879, is the only surviving species of wild horse. Only 1.2 m high, it once inhabited the vast grasslands of central Asia, but beginning in the early 1900s, hunting pressure, competition for grazing land and water, and interbreeding with domestic Mongol ponies contributed to its increasing scarcity in its natural state.
Strict legal protection since 1926 in Mongolia appears to have failed to save the last wild population. The most recent reliable sighting of this horse occrred in 1968. It now survives only in zoos, and there is hope that captive breeding stock can be used in the future to re-establish the species in the wild.
In 1986, 'The Planning of Wild Horses Return to Native Place' suggested by the International Wild Horse Organization has been bringing into effect, 18 truly wild horses returned to its country of origin. The remarkable come-back ends their long years' wandering
Today, they display their natural group-behavior, stand the harsh winters, protect their young from wolves and produce offspring in Juggar Basin in Xinjiang. Once this viable population was secured, the current programmer's activities are concentrated on their better conservation and to help ascertain a novel and durable relationship between man and them.
