“Some 30,000 years ago, Stone Age people decorated a cave, today known as Cueva de los Casares, in central Spain with pictures of mating humans (most famously), geometric shapes, and animals. The most popular carved animal is the wild horse.

Cueva de los Casares sports at least two dozen images of wild horses. Eventually, these Pleistocene-epoch horses vanished — likely slaughtered for food or domesticated. But some 10,000 years later, wild horses have again returned to central Spain — this time to help with out-of-control fires and bring economic opportunity to a struggling region.

In 2023, Rewilding Spain, apart of Rewilding Europe’s network, brought in the first 16 Przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus przewalskii) from France to the highlands of Spain’s Guadalajara province, one of the least populated parts of the country…

Today, the project has 35 Przewalski’s horses.

And it’s not the only species brought back by Rewilding Spain. The team also brought in Taurus cattle. Developed by the Taurus Project, these cattle are meant to be as similar as possible to the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius) that once roamed much of Europe, Asia and North Africa.”

From Mongabay.