First published at 12:54 UTC on January 11th, 2021.
Since 2015, Rewilding Europe works in partnership with The Taurus Foundation in the so-called Tauros Programme. This programme aims to bring back the aurochs as a functional wild animal, by back-breeding the closest relatives of the original aurochs…
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Since 2015, Rewilding Europe works in partnership with The Taurus Foundation in the so-called Tauros Programme. This programme aims to bring back the aurochs as a functional wild animal, by back-breeding the closest relatives of the original aurochs. The aurochs is the ancestor of all cattle and thereby the most important animal in the history of mankind. It is also a keystone species for many European ecosystems but was hunted to its extinction in 1627. However, its DNA is still alive but distributed among a number of the ancient original cattle breeds.
The breeding activities started in The Netherlands in 2009, they are now also working in three rewilding areas: Greater Côa Valley (Portugal), Velebit Mountains (Croatia) and Danube Delta (Romania/Ukraine).
https://stichtingtaurus.nl/
https://rewildingeurope.com/
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